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A MODERN SPIRITUALISTIC CLASSIC 

SCIENTIFIC PROOFS 

OF 

ANOTHER LIFE. 

A series of essays comprising unique lessons 

of daily life, written by eminent persons 

after passing from mortal to 

spirit life. 

COMPILED BY 

ROSE LEVERE, LL.B. 

MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK BAR 

Mors Janua Vitce. 

The entire contents of this book written and 
sketched independently by spirits. 

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DEDICATION 

With reverend love and gratitude 
to my dear parents, — soul father, 
soul mother and the spirit band, this 
book is dedicated. 



PREFACE. 



Fearless that this book will fail to at least interest 
the intelligent reading public, I present it as one of 
the most remarkable and unique literary compilations 
ever given to the world. 

The essays herein are by persons of historical dis- 
tinction, who, many of them, having passed on in 
former decades of time to the Great Beyond, now 
come back in spirit and independently write them. 

The letters were given in my own room under con- 
ditions and circumstances which to me established 
beyond all peradventure the identity of the writers 
and the genuineness of the writings. But they hold 
inherent qualities which show this. The choice of 
themes, the style, the diction, the character of expres- 
sion so peculiar to each writer, and so impossible of 
successful imitation, will at once appeal to the intel- 
ligence of every reader endowed with ordinary lit- 
erary genius. It will be observed that no letter herein 
printed is a reproduction of any given during the 
mortal life of its author. 

With love and kind regard to all into whose hands 
this book shall fall, I dedicate it as a pronouncedly 
affirmative answer to the question asked in all ages — 

"If a man die shall he live again?" 

Rose Leverb. 



^CONTENTS 



PAGE 

Greying — Frank Leslie _. 1 

The Human Soul— Phoebe Gary _ 3 

The Immutability of God's Law — Joan D'Arc 5 

The Power of Thought — Fanny Fern (Sara P. Parton) 7 

The Evolution of the Human Race— William Ellery Channing 9 

White Lies— Stephen Collins Foster.. 11 

Incidents in the Life of George Washington — Lafayette... 15 

Real Life in the Dreamland— Lydia Huntley Sigourney 19 

Jottings by the Wayside— David Crockett 21 

The Tragedy of 1813— Theodosia Burr Alston. 23 

Ethereauzation — M. Jules Simon 27 

The Crucifixion of the Nazarene — Pontius Pilate 31 

The First White Person Born in America— Virginia Dare.. 33 

Doctor Thomas— Phocion 37 

Random Thoughts— Abraham Lincoln... 39 

Regrets of Gradual Progression— Elizabeth Barrett Brown- 
ing 41 

Education— Elizabeth Wright-Menafee 43 

The Falling Worlds of the Universe— Edmund Halley.. 47 

The Power of Mind— Franz Anton Mesmer 49 

The Seance on Mount Sinai— Moses 51 

France and the Italian Troubles— Napoleon III 53 

The Fate of Italy and the Fall of the French Empire— 

Giuseppe Garibaldi 55 

The Dread of Death— Herbert Spencer 57 

The Law of Parentage— Daoud 59 

♦These are all posthumously written and published articles. 



CONTENTS 

The Ii,i, Effects of War Statues— U. S. Grant 61 

The Influence of Woman Suffrage Efforts on the Un- 
born— Susan B. Anthony... 63 

History Repeating Itself Shown in the Rise and Fall 
of Empires and in the Recurring Events of All Ages— 

Charles Darwin 65 

Church and State— Benjamin Disraeli 69 

Let Us Cultivate Humane Inclinations— Henry Bergh 71 

Heaven is Within— Theodore Parker 73 

Death The Emancipator Who Sets Us Free— Henry Ward 

Beecher 75 

Life and the Drama— Dion Boucicault 77 

The Age of the Spirit — Charles F. Berwind 79 

Man Not the Architect But the Builder of His Own 

Being— Florence Nightingale 81 

Rock of Ages— Toplady 83 

The Products of To-Day Are the Possibilities of Yes- 
terday— Omohondro 85 

The Power of the Violin and the Force of Portraiture— 

Ole Bull— Raphael Santi 89 

Sleep— Louisa May Alcott 93 

The Composite Picture— Martha Jefferson Randolph 95 

The Walls Have Ears— Joseph Rodes Buchanan... 97 

Why We Like to Travel Fast— Socrates 99 

Reincarnation— Lucretia Mott 101 

The Great Red Cross— Eugenie of France. 105 

Is Inspiration Insanity?— Jonathan Swift : 107 

Things Not Always What They Seem— Elizabeth Cady Stanton 111 

Reflections in a Cemetery — Mary Washington 115 

No Matter— All Spirit — Henry Kiddle 117 

The Law of Gravity Suspended in Future Transporta- 
tion— Sir Isaac Newton 119 

Thought Forms and Material Forms — Margaret Fuller 

D'Ossoli 123 

Visions of the Future— Leon Tolstoy 125 



CONTENTS 

Harmony and Perfection — Georges Sand 129 

Look for the Light Where It Should Be — Mary Todd 

Lincoln 133 

The Height and the Depth and the Length and the 
Breadth of Heaven and Hell, and Their Possibili- 
ties— Daniel Webster _ 135 

Lone Star and the Pale- Face Maiden— Lone Star 139 

Where is the Millennium? — John Ericsson 343 

The Need is Father to The Wish— Archbishop John Hughes 145 

The Sunshine and the Shadow— Phineas T. Barnum 147 

Chinese Article— Kwo P'Oh 149 

There is Nothing Wonderful— Robert Bonner 151 

The Mind's Bye — Dinah Maria Muloch-Craik 153 

Some of the Follies and Frailties of Education — 

Benjamin Franklin 155 

For God So Loved the World— Swami Vivekananda 159 

One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin — 

W. W. Corcoran . 161 

Man's Weakness as a Physical Being and His Strength 

Mentally — Samuel P. Langley 163 

A Visit to Washington and Albany — Mrs. Partington 

(B. P. Shillaber) 167 

Men and Women Are Only Boys and Girls — Sarah B. Hale 171 

How Thoughts Are Carried — Oliver Wendell Holmes 173 

The Post with an Iron Ring in the Side and a Stone 

Top— Emily C. Judson 177 

One Hundred — The Man Who Sat in the Sycamore Tree 179 

Measuring the Wind's Velocity, Church Steeples and the 

Revolutions of the Earth — Christopher Columbus 181 

Mazie'S Medium — Cyrus West Field 183 

Soul, Spirit and Body — Abu Ishak 187 

Music— M. Auber 189 



CONTENTS 
PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES 

No. 1 — Drinking Facilities on Railroad Trains— Cornelius 

Vanderbilt -.. 191 

No. 2— Free Lunch Counters and Saloon Glasses— William 

S. O'Brien „ 193 

No. 3— Locomotive Engineers and Ferry Boat Pilots — 

Mathias W. Baldwin ... 195 

No. 4— Tipping— Russell Sage 199 

No. 5— Side-Door Railway Cars— Valentine Mott 201 

No. 6— The Weather Bureau— William B. Hazen 203 

No. 7— Undesirable Picture Advertising— Clara Barton 207 

No. 8— False Detention— Deborah Reed Franklin 209 

No. 9 — Unnecessary Inconveniences — Peter Cooper 211 

No. 10— All Eyes Do Not See Alike— James Gordon Bennett 213 

Adieu — Samuel Finley Breese Morse 217 

Compendium— William T. Stead 219 



LIST OF PORTRAITS 



Rose Severe Frontispiece 

FACING PAGE 

Frank Leslie _ 2 

Alice and Phoebe Cary 4 

Joan D'Arc 6 

Fanny Fern (Sara P. Parton) 8 

William Ellery Channing 10 

Stephen Collins Foster 14 

Lafayette 18 

Lydia Huntley Sigourney 20 

David Crockett ; 22 

Theodosia Burr Alston 26 

Jules Simon 30 

Pontius Pilate ..„_ .. 32 

Virginia Dare 36 

Phocion 38 

Abraham Lincoln... 40 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 42 

Elizabeth Wright-Menafee. 46 

Edmund Halley... 48 

Franz Anton Mesmer _. 50 

Moses __ 52 

Napoleon III 54 

Giuseppe Garibaldi 56 

Herbert Spencer 5S 

Daoud 60 

U. S. Grant 62 



LIST OF PORTRAITS 

FACING PAGE 

Susan B. Anthony 6- 

Charles Darwin 53 

Benjamin Disraeli 70 

Tecumseh 72 

Theodore Parker _ 74 

Henry Ward Beecher 75 

Dion Boucicault 78 

Roulania 80 

Florence Nightingale.... 82 

Toplady 84 

Omohondro 88 

Ole Bull 90 

Raphael Santi 92 

Louisa May Alcott 94 

Martha Jefferson Randolph 96 

Billy 98 

Socrates 100 

Lucretia Mott 104 

Eugenie of France ;. 106 

Jonathan Swift 110 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 114 

Mary Washington 116 

George Washington 118 

Sir Isaac Newton 122 

Margaret Fuller D'Ossoli 124 

Leon Tolstoy 128 

Georges Sand 132 

Mary Todd Lincoln 134 

Daniel Webster. 138 

Black Hawk 142 

John Ericsson 144 

Archbishop John Hughes 146 

Phineas T. Barnum 148 ' 

Kwo P'Oh 150 



LIST OF PORTRAITS 

FACING PAGE 

Robert Bonner 152 / 

Dinah Maria Muloch-Craik 154 

Benjamin Franklin 158 

W. W. Corcoran 162 

Samuei P. Langley 166 

Mrs. Partington (B. P. Shillaber) _ 170 

Sarah B. Hale 172 

Oliver Wendell Holmes 176 

Emily C. Judson 178 

The Man Who Sat in the Sycamore Tree - . 180 ' 

Christopher Columbus 182 

Cyrus West Field 186 / 

Abu Ishak... .,. . 188 / 

Daniel Francois Esprit Auber.. 190 

Cornelius Vanderbilt . 192 

William S. O'Brien 194 

Matthias W. Baldwin 198 , 

Russell Sage.. 200 , 

Valentine Mott.. 202 , 

William B. Hazen 206 

Clara Barton 208 

Deborah Reed Franklin 210 

Peter Cooper 212 

James Gordon Bennett 216 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse 218 ' 

William T. Stead 224 



Scientific Proofs of Another Life 



GREETING. 

Frank Leslie. 

In metaphoric language, I stand on the golden 
ramparts of progress and behold waving in the breezes 
of inquiry the flag of freedom — of freedom of thought. 
I look out on the broad plaza of experience before me 
and I see the Maid of Orleans as in the splendid 
militant glory of her French achievements, adorning 
the mustering army with literary ensigns armorial. 
And I see standing in the inimitable grandeur of his 
self-made glory, like the "Stonewall" of the civil war, 
that old tried and true champion of belles-lettres — 
the masterful litterateur, William T. Stead, heralding 
the bel esprit of the gone-by centuries. I read upon 
the windswept banners of the oncoming trumpeters 
the laws of Moses, the philosophy of Socrates and 
Omohondro and Daoud and Channing and Holmes 
and Simon, the astronomy of Halley, the art of Ital- 
ian genius, the tender ballads of Foster, the poetry of 
the Brownings and the Carys, and the subtlety of the 
brain of Mesmer. I see the stirring activities of Gari- 
baldi and Napoleon and Lafayette and Grant, the 
naturalism of Darwin, the statesmanship of Disraeli 
and Tolstoy, and the humaneness of Bergh. I see 
the suffrage of Anthony and Stanton, the religion of 
Parker and Beecher and Hughes and the Swami, the 



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tenderness of Eugenie and Nightingale and Barton, 
the music of Toplady and Bull and Auber, and the 
dramatic art of Boucicault. I see the idealities of 
Washington and Lincoln and Mott and Alcott and 
Sand and Muloch and Sigourney, the gravity of New- 
ton, the inspiration of Swift and Parton, the educa- 
tion of Kiddle and Menafee, the pathos of Alston and 
Lone Star, the mentality of Webster, the originality 
of Barnum and Bonner, the invention of Ericsson 
and Langley, the discovery of Franklin, and the prac- 
ticability of Vanderbilt and O'Brien and Baldwin and 
Mott and Hazen and Cooper and Bennett and Sage- 
I smile at the humor of Shillaber, and I weep in the 
shadow of the Cross. 

Marching hitherward are they all to make their 
"mark" on the public pages of 

"Scientific Proofs of Another Life." 

I welcome you, brothers and sisters, all. And the 
Band and the World will peruse with interest and 
admiration the gems of thought which shall flow from 
your pens like the glistening beams scintillating from 
the imaginary regalia of the forward-marching army 
of celestial scribes. 

Welcome and God speed you all. 













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THE HUMAN SOUL. 

Phoebe Cary. 

In distant eons of the past 

Ere sun or moon or world had birth, 
When bright Pleiades had not cast 

Its shimmer toward this unborn earth, 

Ere the dial of time had marked 
The earthly day of night and morn, 

In venture nature had embarked — 
A man and woman's soul was born. 

Not sex, divided, as is now, 

But two joined into one pure soul, 

Thus under Nature's plighted vow 
United made one perfect whole. 

Ere Father Time made hour-glass runs, 
Before the Milky Way had sent 

The glimmer of its countless suns 
Across our night-black firmament, 

There came a dreadful, fearful strife 
In embryo age that poured a rain 

Of awful fury on that life, 
And tore it ruthlessly in twain. 

Thus on the parted souls have gone, 
And yet they have not seemed to meet; 

Both male and female were they born, 
But neither in itself complete. 



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And ever since this great divide 
Was made upon the human kind 

The severed soul has wandered wide 
In hope the missing half to find. 

It passes through this vale of tears, 

Meeting not its natural twin, 
Pursues its journey through the years 

Till other worlds it enters in. 

So in the blest millennium, 

When seventh sphere shall be our home, 
When peace and rest to us shall come, 

And end this lonely, ceaseless roam, 

We'll find in that eternal day, 

When shines life's never ending sun, 

The part that somehow went astray, 
And reunite at last in one. 




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THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD'S LAWS. 
Joan D'Arc 

The various acts and products and experiences in 
and under the laws of God vary in phase and form, 
but the laws of nature of themselves never change. 

They are eternal and immutable. Here and there 
appears a man of learning who tells you of a new 
law of ethics, or of astronomy, a new law governing 
the appearing and disappearing of sun spots, and of 
solar rays, etc. He does not state his meaning clearly 
when he tells you he has discovered a new law of 
physics, or of psychic phenomena. He may have 
found the law, but it is not a new one. Its applica- 
tion may be new. He has discovered new modes of 
the operation of certain phenomena, he evolves new 
hypotheses. But he discovers no new law, for there 
is no new law to be discovered. 

Law is as old as the universe, and older, for with 
it came the universe of all things. 

It is immutable, and it governs changelessly all 
the things which man does discover. 

It was as possible to have had in operation a 
dynamo in the city of Pompeii as in the city of Phila- 
delphia. A Great Eastern could have been designed, 
builded and floated, and payed out an ocean cable, 
just as well in the days of the two Cyruses of ancient 
Persia as in the days of the more modern Cyrus of 
New York. It requires no establishment or discovery 



6 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

of a new law to run an automobile. It is propelled 
under the same law that a wheelbarrow was pushed 
in building the great wall of China — an application 
of energy. And the same law governs the energy 
to-day that did in the days of Moses, whether it be 
an energy through a laborer's muscle, or through the 
pistons of an engine, or the valves of a church organ. 




JOAN D'ARC 

THE MAID or ORLEANS. 

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THE POWEK OF THOUGHT. 

Fanny Fern. 
(Sara P. Partem.) 

The sky-parlor ! We all know where it is, because 
it is nearer heavenward than the rest of the abode. 
We all are consciously or unconsciously migrating 
toward heaven. Only now and then a traveler gets 
side-tracked on the journey. But we can all go on as 
high as the sky-parlor, in the quiet of which I love to 
meditate. In thought I find a power which is an 
inspiration, and inspiration lifts me still nearer 
heaven than the parlor under the eaves. In this re- 
tired room — retired from the velvet carpets too good 
in the ground parlor to step on, from the statuary 
too expensive to handle, from richly curtained win- 
dows that shut out God's bright sunlight, from the 
stately rows of books too valuable to be unshelved: 
in this retired room I discern the scintillations of the 
real heaven. 

Peace, quiet retirement, ease, holiness, inspiration ! 
And here I realize the power of thought. It is an 
incentive to me to better things. 

I love to sit in the silence and think : Think of the 
sweet kiss of an angel mother's love, of the gentle 
admonitions of a dear old father, of the brother's 
hearty hand-clasp, of sister's reposing trust. I am 
wont to think of the love days of youth, when the 
moon's pale glow fell athwart my pathway of love's 
young dream, when the guileless blush of tender 
maidenhood was the signet of affection's betrothal, 



8 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and a lover's words, playing upon the harp-strings of 
my being, were the sweetest music my soul had ever 
known. 

I love to think of the kindness of friend to friend, 
of beneficence to the worthy poor, of the glory of a 
pure and proper life, of the smile on the dead face of 
the good and true which death itself could not steal 
away. I like to contemplate the joyous reunions in 
the days after death. These reveries put me in touch 
with the Infinite, lift me above the sordid things of 
earth. 

In the power of thought I see the smiles of angels 
and find an inspiration from heaven and from God 
himself. Go up to the sky-parlor, rest in the roof- 
garden. Go into the silence and be one with God! 



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THE EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN KACE A 
GEEAT STUDY. 

William Ellery Channing. 

In all ages of the world, in all parts of it, the evo- 
lution of the child into the man begins under the 
most tender processes and ministrations. A wise 
fate seems to have entrusted these early stages of ad- 
vancement to the direction and care of mother love. 
Indeed might youth, the earliest period of youth, if 
possessed of the consciousness of after years, feel 
grateful that its innocent moments are entrusted to 
care so true and gentle. For many there is hardly 
an education beyond this of the mother in their ten- 
derest years. All the life through is the education of 
the cradle felt, not alone by the child evolving from 
it, but by the entire world affected by it, for is not 
all an evolution from cradle precept? It is most 
truly said that, "The hand that rocks the cradle is 
the hand that rules the world." This early teaching 
instructs the senses, guides the unfolding faculties. 

And the embryo man bespeaks the wise or unwise 
master of events in later years. All subsequent edu- 
cation has for its superstructure the precepts of the 
tender mother. An old adage tells us that experience 
is our best teacher. 

A later concept is that observation is the great 
teacher. But I am inclined to substitute another 



10 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

term. Who shall say that, after all, reflection and 
meditation are not the great teachers? 

Eeflection upon all the events of the past, medita- 
tion upon the situation of the future. 

Blessed indeed is the mother; she is the savior of 
the world. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 11 



WHITE LIES. 

Stephen Collins Foster. 

Is untruth permissible? Is deception to any degree 
a commendable practice? Are "white lies" pardon- 
able? 

We tell a sick person he is looking better and get- 
ting on very well, when we know he is "struck with 
death" and will soon pass out. It usually eases the 
patient, for most persons want to live; that hope of 
life which springs eternal in the human breast is 
stimulated. 

"I fear my sermon last night wearied you, and the 
text was a dry one to you," remarked the pastor. 

"Oh, no, Doctor; not at all! It was very interest- 
ing and reviving," answered his listener, unaware that 
his sleep during the sermon had been observed. But 
the preacher's vanity was tickled and he went away 
feeling that he had not mistaken his vocation, and 
that his call was a profitable and a pleasant one. 

"Dear me! dear me! I think I must be growing 
fatter by the minute," gasped big Mrs. Blowhard as 
she arrived panting at the head of the stairs. 

"Why, Mrs. Blowhard, you wrong yourself," an- 
swered her complimenting hostess. "You imagine it 
all. You really and truly look much smaller to me, 
and I was about to ask you what brand of anti-fat 
you were using." The hostess thought Mrs. Blowhard 
needed a derrick to let herself down out of the win- 
dow as they do a safe, while Mrs. Blowhard never 
felt lighter on her feet than she did that afternoon, 



12 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and she looked over the engagement card of the 
soiree that was to be given the next week. 

"Alas! alas!" sadly murmured three-score-and-ten 
Mr. Graybeard, "I am greatly advanced in years, and 
I feel my age most keenly as well as look it," and 
he fanned himself in the large rocker despairingly. 

"Nonsense, Mr. Graybeard, you act and look like 
a boy, and your complexion is as clear as a maiden's." 

"Oh! ah! Eeally? Thank you." And Mr. Gray- 
beard hitched his chair toward the front of a mirror 
on the wall. That afternoon he went out happy and 
visited the barber shop to have his hair and mustache 
dyed jet black. 

The telephone in the third floor back room rang, 
and to Mrs. Stayathome's "Hello!" Mrs. Gadabout 
said: "I thought I would run around and see you 
for an hour or so if you would be at home this after- 
noon." 

"I am extremely sorry, but I am just going out. 
Come some other day." 

She wasn't sorry at all, nor was she going out. She 
passed the afternoon at home quietly and peacefully. 
Her white lie gave her the quiet, restful season at 
home she desired. 

Mr. Johnson had but little more than started down- 
town when a messenger rapped hurriedly on his wife's 
door. "Do you know this person?" he asked ner- 
vously, handing her at the same time a card bearing 
Mr. Johnson's name and address. Continuing, he 
added : "He is over in the drug store. An automobile 
ran against him. He is hurt; I am afraid he is very 
badly hurt." 

"Thank you, sir; I'll go over immediately. Come, 
Sister Sarah, let's hurry over. John is badly hurt. 
I fear the worst." 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 13 

The messenger knew that John was dead when he 
rapped on the door, but he broke the news of the acci- 
dent in that gentle, gradual way to prepare the widow 
for the later shock. Had he revealed the truth at 
first she and Sarah would have probably fainted. 
Was the messenger's concealment of facts right or 
wrong? 

A dear old mother and her only son were mortally 
wounded in a railroad wreck. They were conveyed 
to an extemporized hospital and rested in separate 
rooms. The boy died within two hours. "How is 
my boy Tom?" inquired the old woman of the visit- 
ing doctor. 

"He is better/' was his answer. 

"Thank God !" exclaimed the old mother. A smile 
of relief and peace illumined her features, then 
shortly after the gray pallor of death overspread her 
face, and she joined her boy in another world. 

Did the doctor do any good in his juggling with 
truth? Did he do the right way when he started that 
old soul-suffering woman on her journey through the 
spheres with a relieved mind and a hope for the best? 

Many of my ballads were not alive to exactness, 
but my exaggerations wreathed the world in smiles. 
My songs were sung the world over for years, amid 
smiles and tears, and their anthem-like sentiments 
were wafted to the supernal realms. Even our own 
Bonnie Blue Players sense the pathos in "O Susanna," 
"Nellie Bly," "Old Kentucky Home," "Old Dog 
Tray," "Uncle Ned," "Willie, We Have Missed You," 
"Old Folks at Home" and "Come Where My Love 
Lies Dreaming." 



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INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF 

GEORGE WASHINGTON. 

Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier. 
(Marquis de Lafayette.) 

During my stay in America, in the last years of the 
18th century, my association with General George 
Washington was of that close character which ren- 
dered it a real comradeship. Though there was a 
difference in our ages of twenty-five years, the Gen- 
eral seemed to regard me in as companionable a way 
as if we had been of similar ages. His headquarters 
and his home were shared with him by me on all per- 
missible occasions. We became very close in our 
confidences. I freely told him of my boyish caprice 
of marrying at the tender age of sixteen, and he re- 
lated to me many interesting and amusing incidents 
of his early love-life. Indeed, he oft assured me that 
to no one else had he so frankly extended his confi- 
dence. 

The strikingly similar features of our youth seemed 
to impress him greatly, and to act as a bond between 
our friendships. When we first met I was under 
twenty years of age, and he was forty-four. At the 
early age of nineteen years George Washington was 
appointed adjutant of the Virginia troops, and at 
the same age I was appointed captain of the French 
dragoons. At the age of twenty-one Washington was 
appointed by Lieutenant-Governor Dinwiddie com- 
mander of the Northern Military District of Virginia, 
and at the same age I bore the honored distinction of 



16 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

Major-General of the American army. This paral- 
lelism of military favor at similar ages seemed to 
endear me to the General, and I certainly found him 
a very congenial social partner and a most lovable, 
companionable man. 

General Washington was hardly known to have 
ever read a book through, and seldom looked at a 
newspaper. Of course these were not found in his 
day in the profusion they are now. He was no reader. 
In private life he busied himself with his plantation 
affairs and saw enough to occupy his mind in atten- 
tion to them. His business judgment was of the best. 
In his long legislative career he made no speeches, but 
he laid plans which his more talkative colleagues put 
into action. The great and varying responsibilities 
which confronted him all through life educated him 
to greatness. 

Washington, when a young man, was a great ad- 
mirer of the fair sex. He had his sweethearts in 
many sections of the thirteen colonies, and more than 
one had been led to hope she should some day bear 
his name. He cherished them almost to serious love, 
but he invariably made it a special feature of his 
wooing to feel the pocketbook of each fair one. His 
affection in every instance but one was tempered by 
the amount of wealth the girls were backed up with. 
This one instance was in his really serious heart af- 
fection with Miss Sally Fairfax at Bell Haven (Alex- 
andria) in Virginia. With the intense earnestness of 
his nature he sought her in marriage regardless of 
her finances, but Miss Sally had no real room in her 
heart for her pleading suitor, and for once George 
Washington was defeated. His later marriage to 
Martha Custis he never discussed with me, but she 
brought a fortune to him which no doubt poised his 
affection most admirably. 



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George Washington believed in and advocated the 
propagation and conservation as far as possible of 
all woodlands, believing that in the advance of time 
great want in the way of fuel would be experienced. 
When a very young boy, to show his disregard for 
superstition, he capped the chimney tops of his 
mother's home in Fredericksburg each with thirteen 
bricks, and planted thirteen trees in a circle around 
the house and lot. Three of these trees still stand 
( 1912 ) . George Washington was stricken with small- 
pox when a boy, contracted from a young man driver 
of a baker wagon with whom he rode the rounds. He 
was nursed in the Fredericksburg home by a black 
woman named Harriet Page, who took the disease 
from him. Washington survived, but the nurse lost 
her life. Washington wore a set of ivory false teeth, 
ill-fitting and clumsy, which, with his pitted face, 
rendered him rather unprepossessing in feature. But 
he was of magnificent bodily proportions. His height 
was six feet two inches, and not six feet, as is com- 
monly understood. Owing to the lack of advance- 
ment in medical knowledge at that time, he was bled 
to death by a butcher named Craik, of Alexandria, 
who was called a doctor. 



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KEAL LIFE IN THE DREAMLAND. 

Lydia Huntley Sigourney. 

Have you fallen almost asleep, perhaps in your big 
easy chair near the open window on a lazy summer 
afternoon, and then suddenly revived to a state of 
wakefulness? Have you gone through these almost 
momentary changes a number of times, perhaps, and 
have you observed that the thoughts in the awake 
moments have been carried into the asleep states, in 
maybe a distorted or irregular manner — roamed, as 
it were, in an unguided, fantastic manner? For ex- 
ample: You sit looking out on a beautiful street 
coolingly shaded by trees, and you think what a 
charming afternoon and opportunity to take a stroll 
there if you could but arouse yourself from your 
lethargy enough. And while you are so mentally solilo- 
quizing, you nod off in sleep, and you dream you walk 
down the bowered street, and you enjoy it quite as 
much as you would had you bodily left the room and 
sauntered beneath the summer foliage. Apparently 
the trees are as real and the tread of the foot upon 
the ground as substantial as in your physical moving 
experiences. In these dreams, so vividly realistic that 
you do not know you dream until you awake, your 
thoughts are to you as wide-awake experiences. You 
are unable to distinguish a difference. The mind is 
traveling over this or that route. And the mind of 
man is his real part. Hence thought creates the ex- 
perience, and thoughts are things. The spirit in all 
cases is the real, the material is the fading copy. 



20 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

The material anchors the spirit at times, and it is 
not free. While spirit has to bolster up and keep 
active the qualities of the physical body, it is ham- 
pered. When the body relaxes into a certain state 
of independence, the mind is partially free at small 
periods of time. As long as the mortal body is to be 
kept capable of susceptibility to the returning in- 
dwelling spirit, it must be watched over by that spirit. 
It may now and then dodge out as the mother bird 
flees from the nest of its young for short flights, rather 
than remain away long, thus repeating its brief ab- 
sence, and the spirit is never wholly free from the 
body until that body arrives at the stage where its 
functions shall end. Hence the travels of the spirit 
or the mind are imperfect and confused, oscillating 
between the free experiences and those it is circum- 
scribed to by the physical form. 

Thoughts are things and are the real. The book- 
case filled with books in the corner of the library are 
mere expressions of thought. They existed before 
they became those physical objects. A man has to 
think of a book before he can write and print it. It 
is a production of the mind. A man thought out the 
size and form of the bookcase before he made it. 
Thought was the creator of the book and the book- 
case, instead of the printing press and the cabinet 
maker. 

Dreams, therefore, are the experiences of the mind, 
the spirit, circumscribed by limitations of the physical 
form. Their imperfections and irregularities and 
idiosyncracies are the effect of the life-line leading 
from the material form to the wandering spirit. No 
part of life and real consciousness is lost in sleep. 
We live on as active a life as in our hours of body 
inhabitance. The spirit is ever conscious. 




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JOTTINGS BY THE WAYSIDE. 
David Crockett. 

When a lady pays an acquaintance a call, or goes 
in a public company, wearing beautiful diamond ear- 
rings and finger rings, she assumes a state of oblivion 
to their existence, and her friends never appear to 
observe them. A man may wear an exquisite scarf- 
pin or a valuable ring, but his auditors must not seem 
to see them. They may give sidelong glances, but 
when the wearer observes them they must turn away. 
Yet jewels are costly and decorative, they are worn 
because the wearer prizes and likes them, and he ex- 
pects others to admire them. 

When we enter the room where a dead body lies, or 
attend the obsequies, or stand near a funeral cortege, 
we invariably lower our voices to a very subdued tone. 
The mourners are not disturbed by the ordinary voice 
of friends, and surely the corpse is not. At military 
funeral services cannons boom and thunders roar 
without protest from the living or awakening the 
person asleep in death. 

Some person's literary proclivities predominate at 
peculiar periods. For instance, many a man in a 
crowded street car becomes so absorbed in his news- 
paper that he utterly fails to see ladies struggling 
on the ends of balance straps. 

Some men and women resemble statues. This claim 
is well established by the tenacity with which they 
cling to the end seats of summer street cars. A bar- 
nacle on a ship or a freckle on a boy's face could not 
be more immovable. 



22 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

The activity of many men at the opera or theatre 
is marked by the frequency of their annoying climb 
out and in and over rows of ladies and gentlemen. 
The bar-rooms attached to theatres are fitted with 
powerful magnets. 

Edison's phonograph is not the only talking ma- 
chine in the world. Automobilists own the public 
thoroughfares at present. The moan of a fog horn 
speaks a useful message to the pilot on the river, but 
the "honk! honk!" of an automobile says to pedes- 
trians on the street, "Get out of my way or suffer the 
consequences. I am the people." 

How strongly the marks of a man's trade cling to 
him. Subway, elevated and surface railway managers 
were evidently pork packers and sardine boxers in 
some day of their life. They do not care for the com- 
fort of their traveling patrons any more than they 
did for the room occupied by pork tenderloins and 
small fishes. They do not get any revenue from the 
people to enrich their pocket-books, a little seraph 
from an unknown realm comes down and fills their 
coffers. 

Women's long and sharp-pointed hatpins are no 
menace to the people. Why need the wearers or vic- 
tims mind an eye or two gouged out or a scratch 
given, as long as the shop on the avenue sells glass 
false eyes, and every drugstore has plenty of court- 
plaster? 

Why care for the rebuffs of employers, the soul- 
lessness of corporations, the coldness of one-time 
friends, the chill of charity? There is a rusty stone 
and a few sticks of wood in the back shanty. We can 
go in there and get warm. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 23 



THE TKAGEDY OF 1813. 
Theodosia Burr Alston. 

The sunrise of the new eighteenth century illum- 
ined like a blazoned escutcheon of glory my young 
life, but the zenith of my earthly joys, pride and hap- 
piness was darkened so completely and forever by the 
footfalls of a sudden night that I wondered I had ever 
seen the light. 

From my earliest recollections up to the closing 
days of my father's political career in 1804, my life 
seemed one round of unadulterated joy. Father was 
Vice-President of the United States, and had almost 
been made President in preference to Jefferson. 1 
was most happily married to one of the best of men, 
who stood high in social and political distinction, a 
man so generous that no expressed or apparent wish 
of mine was left ungranted. Like a little cloud that 
hangs in the dome of a midday summer sky, the only 
shadow whatsoever over me was the contemplation 
of the distance between Washington, D. C, and 
Georgetown, S. C, separating the two men I loved 
best on earth — Aaron Burr and Joseph Alston. But 
that cloud was destined to draw others to it and 
blight the radiant joy which illumined my days. The 
unfortunate death of Alexander Hamilton at Wee- 
hawken, the charge of murder against my beloved 
father, his social and political ostracism and his sad 
exile from America, the decease of my only boy, my 
poor health and broken heart, were the woes which 
trod upon another's heels in such quick succession 



24 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

that my sun of happiness and of life itself soon sank 
below the horizon forever. The few remaining months 
of my mortal life gathered no brightness for me, and 
my heart was eaten out in its earnest yearning to see 
my father whom I revered and loved as someone above 
and beyond anything belonging to this world. 

At last affairs became so adjusted that he returned 
to New York. And in the midnight of my sorrow 
came the single lightning's flash as the thought of 
his dear arms again about me gave the sudden im- 
pulse of light to my emotions. I at once arranged to 
go to him for a visit. Hardly willing to leave my de- 
voted husband, I yielded to the yearnings of a sorely 
tried heart. Then came the tragedy which has been 
wrapped in mystery to the world for an hundred 
years. 

Setting sail on the pilot boat Patriot from George- 
town for New York, a terrific storm rose which 
lashed the waves to fury and swept the Carolina coast 
from end to end. The recent war of 1812 had left 
the seas abounding in privateering vessels, and un- 
fortunately our boat was driven into the direct path 
of one whose commander was of a most unscrupulous 
class. When the storm abated all aboard our boat 
except myself were murdered. I was below and was 
at first unobserved, but later seeing me, I was dragged 
out and transferred to the pirate ship. Next day I was 
visited by the captain, who informed me that I was 
held for a choice between serving his bidding and 
walking the plank. I refused once, last and all the 
time to submit to the first provision, and begged that 
life and liberty be granted me for the sake of my 
husband and father. 

The Patriot, dismantled by the storm, was aban- 
doned to her course, and she drifted ashore off Kitty 
Hawk, near Nag's Head, North Carolina. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 25 

Fifty-seven years after the disappearance Dr. W. G. 
Pool, a physician of Elizabeth City, N. C, spending the 
summer at Nag's Head, was called to attend profes- 
sionally an old woman named Mann. In lieu of a 
fee she presented him with an oil painting of a lady. 
Mrs. Mann explained that in her young days a pilot 
boat came ashore near Kitty Hawk and was boarded 
by Mr. Tillett, who afterward became her first hus- 
band. He found no one on board, but everything was 
in order, and a meal was set on the table. In one of 
the rooms, apparently occupied by a woman, the 
painting was found and appropriated by Mr. Tillett. 
This boat was the Patriot, and the painting was a por- 
trait of myself, which I was carrying as a present to 
my father. 

The captain of the pirate boat did not carry out his 
threat to walk me off the plank, but instead later 
landed and confined me in a shack on what appeared 
to me an island unknown to me, somewhere, from 
what I could manage to understand, about a hundred 
or two miles from Cape Hatteras. Here I was con- 
fined for a number of weeks under the espionage of 
an old sailor, who, while treating me with rude man- 
ners and supercilious contempt, offered me no other 
indignities. I was not cold, but I was ill and frail, 
and was starving under the coarse food supplied me. 
A superhuman strength sustained me in my awful 
ordeal. My guard was a foreigner, and did not un- 
derstand English or any language I could speak. I 
begged him through signs and words and tears to 
allow me to escape and take my own life. I tried to 
communicate to him the address and name of my 
father and husband and to induce him to let them 
know of my fate, whatever it should be, that their 
suspense might come to an end. But my efforts 
availed nothing. 



26 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

After what seemed an interminable length of weeks 
the pirate boat returned, and the same captain took 
us on board and sailed off. He made known to me 
his intention to either have me comply with all his 
commands or to suffer further and longer imprison- 
ment on the same island. I still refused. I was 
subjected to all kinds of insult and meanness from 
all the desperate crew. I seemed to face probable 
death, for they would not set me free on inhabited 
soil. 

One balmy night I sat on a coil of rope by the ship's 
edge. The spring was approaching, and the air in that 
latitude was soft. The full moon was shedding her 
pale beams upon me, and the starlit sky seemed as 
calm as the ocean's bosom. Reflecting on the horrible 
suspense of those who loved me, anticipating death 
or worse at the hands of the fiend who held me in 
bondage, mind-racked, soul-sick and insane, I plunged 
over the railing into the watery grave below. No one 
observed me. In a moment I rose to the surface, the 
moon looked down into my pale face with pitying 
solace, and the stars in their twinkling seemed to 
beckon me to the heights of heaven. I sank again 
and the waters closed in forever over all that was 
mortal of me. Now for the first time in the history 
of the world is given the real story of the tragedy 
of Theodosia Burr Alston. The conditions justified 
my rash act, and the dark record of it in the Lamb's 
Book of Life was blotted out by the tears of angels. 



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ETHEBEALIZATION. 
Jules Simon. 

Correctly speaking, the manifestation is not ethe- 
realization when a form is visible. Even when re- 
duced to a degree of insolidity in which the unaided 
eye does not take cognizance of it, but which could be 
discerned by the more acute sense of vision aided by 
clairvoyance, microscopy, second sight or the photo- 
graphic camera, it is nevertheless material. Because 
the unassisted eye does not perceive the animalcula 
in a drop of water, or a moving mite in a piece of 
cheese, is no reason for those objects being termed 
ethereal. Invisibility should not be confounded with 
ethereality. 

Eeferring to the spirit and the body of man, the 
general acceptation of belief is that one is ethereal 
and the other material. St. Paul's observation that 
there was a temporal body and a spiritual body was 
not designed to apply to the spirit itself, but to the 
embodied states of the same both before and after 
the change called death. Body, in my understand- 
ing, indicates solidity, ponderousness, substance, ma- 
terial, while spirit appears to me quite the reverse of 
these conditions. To some persons the expression 
"spiritual body" is contradictory and irreconcilable. 
But the author expressed his meaning correctly. By 
the term "spiritual body" the consideration of the 
spirit was intended to be eliminated, and note taken 
of the greater and lesser degrees of materiality gath- 
ered in the bodies in the two states of existence. By 



28 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

the term "temporal body" was meant the familiar mor- 
tal organism, and by "spiritual body" that sublimated 
structure without which the spirit would be wholly 
invisible to material eyes. The finer material or sub- 
limated body is the ethereal body, but it is a body 
nevertheless. 

On another page is given an explanation of 
the multiplicity of reductions of a material ob- 
ject by the microscope until materiality has been 
seemingly annihilated. Yet the "spiritual body" (a 
really material body) holds together all the time. 
Otherwise it could not again become visible to ma- 
terial eyes. Anything which the material eye sees is 
material, though it may be apparently in a very deli- 
cate or sublimated degree material. The passing of 
matter through matter has been so thoroughly and 
scientifically elucidated that intelligent observers into 
the intricate realm of spirit no longer question the 
phenomena. This is done by one object being reduced 
to the degree of ethereality which enables it to pass 
between the particles of the grosser object without 
being affected by their resistance, just as a chemist 
may pass a gold bar through a plate of iron by ar- 
resting the solidity and reducing to an ethereal state 
the one object when the other will readily permit its 
passage. In neither case is the substance lost or 
etherealized except so far as is implied by the terms 
finer and subtler. 

As stated, spirit unembodied is invisible. To be- 
come at all even indistinctly within the plane of 
observation, it must assume some degree of material 
embodiment. Hence, when it clothes itself in a body 
so infinitely finer than the earth life bodies about it 
as not to find an obstruction in passing through the 
latter, or through inanimate objects, it becomes vis- 
ible to the mortal eye, and in common parlance you 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 29 

term it an instance of etherealization — yon say yon 
saw an ethereal spirit. It is, trnly and correctly 
speaking, a materialization, but of such delicate tex- 
ture that it can pass through grosser substance unob- 
structed, as water will pass through the mosquito 
net, or a large lump of earth shaken to dust will pass 
through a sieve, the sublimated body going, as it 
were, through the pores of the more solid. 

Some persons try to liken the "etherealized body" 
to the shadow cast by a scurrying cloud flitting down 
over the hillside through various objects. But the 
comparison is not well drawn. The former is some- 
thing occupying space, while the latter is merely the 
absence of the greater strength of light. In strictly 
legitimate language, there is no etherealization; it 
is a degree of lesser, finer, more delicate materializa- 
tion. 



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THE CKUCIFIXION OF THE NAZAKENE. 

Pontius Pilate. 

Translated and Transcribed by Wm. T. Stead. 

Various translations of the event of the great cruci- 
fixion have lost to it its real colors. You are told 
in the King James version that Simon carried the 
cross of Jesus. This was not possible. It was of 
too great weight and too cumbersome. The cross was 
borne by Simon and his two strong sons, Alexander 
and Eufus. Jesus was not raised and pinioned to the 
cross. It was laid upon the ground and he was laid 
upon it and nailed thereto, and it was raised and se- 
cured in standing position. The death of Jesus was 
not the simple result of crucifixion; that method of 
punishment was usual in that day, and it was well 
known that persons so hung upon the cross lived three 
days and even longer. Jesus was a young man of 
strength and vigor, and could hardly have expired in 
the brief period of six hours. 

The crucified died under lingering processes of ex- 
haustion and faintness. A few minutes before his 
death Jesus cried out with a loud voice. The sudden 
termination of his sufferings was not due to any in- 
jury to brain, lung or vital organ except the arrest- 
ment of the heart action by syncope, or a rupture of 
the walls of the heart. His loud cry and other ex- 
clamations showed his was not a case of fainting, or 
stopping of the heart action by syncope. 

Jesus succumbed to death by rupture of the walls 
of the heart. The time of death is regulated by the 



32 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

size of the ruptured opening. In his case it was brief 
in consequence of the blood escaping from the in- 
terior of the heart into the pericardium, three or four 
pounds of blood having accumulated within it, sep- 
arated into red clot and serum, or blood and water. 

Post-mortem examinations were not permitted in 
those days, but a virtual post-mortem examination in 
crude form was possible in the case of Jesus through 
the gash made in his side by the thrust of the Koman 
soldier's spear; in fact, so large that the apostle 
Thomas was enabled to place his hand, not his finger, 
in the opening. This he did as examination and not 
from doubt, as is wrongly recorded at the appearance 
of Jesus in materialized form. 

As a result of that piercing was the flow of blood 
and water seen by the apostle John. Nothing could 
have produced this but the collection of blood in the 
pericardium resulting from rupture of the heart — 
this crossamentum and serum. Severe mental emo- 
tions sometimes produce rupture of the walls of the 
heart. 

No victim offered a more striking example of agony 
and suffering than Jesus, scourged as he was and for- 
saken by those he believed were his friends, under 
wrongful accusations. Remember the scriptural 

words : 

"Reproach hath broken my heart! 
My heart is like wax!" 

Jesus was slain not by the effects of the pain of 
his body, but by the greater anguish of his mind. He 
died of a broken heart. 



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THE FIRST WHITE PERSON BORN IN 
AMERICA. 

Virginia Dare. 

I bear the distinction of being the first white per- 
son born in America. I was in the strictest sense 
truly an American citizen, the first white human 
being having birth in the new world. Like my sister 
suffragettes of to-day, I was raised without the privi- 
lege of the ballot, a victim of taxation without repre- 
sentation, by nature naturalized but hereditarily dis- 
franchised, a natural, hopeful, aspiring suffragist. 
May the suffering women of progress of this twentieth 
century find solace in the fact that there was the first 
born and barred suffragette in America in the person 
of Virginia Dare. It is a rare privilege to me to 
realize that I was the first native white child to look 
upon the fair land that had not yet forgotten the 
visit of its illustrious Columbus. 

While I may impress you as one beginning a new 
age, a new condition of things, yet the world was 
long before my time, and America was as old as 
Africa or Asia. The emblazoned escutcheon of his- 
tory was replete with the glory of the past. 

Previously to my advent the Tudors had led Eng- 
land by a snap of their fingers. The two Henrys — 
VII and VIII — Edward VI and Mary I, had reigned 
with power and pomp, and silently passed into the 
gloaming. It was during the halcyon days of the 



34 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

virgin queen Elizabeth, in whose honor the dominion 
of Virginia was named, and who swung the golden 
sceptre of English rule till the appearance of the 
Stuarts, that I first saw the light of the new-found 
world at Roanoke. New-found, with the emphasis on 
found, for the world was as old here as across the 
Atlantic. The mighty torrents of Niagara were gnaw- 
ing the foundations of its gorge then, and the wide 
wastes of territory stretched in wildness from far east 
of the Great Lakes westward to the zephyr-kissed 
lands in the golden glory of the setting sun. Ferns 
graced the dells and wild flowers bloomed on the 
mountain sides where human foot of the white man 
had never trod, and the dews of heaven had long 
nurtured the fertile valleys and plains of the red man's 
home. When Virginia Dare was born the air from 
the Mohawk Valley and the Hudson River on the east 
to the outlying woodlands of the distant west echoed 
with the warwhoops of the tribes of the Algonquins, 
Iroquois, Choctaws, Uchees, Natchez, Catawbas, 
Sioux and Cherokees. 

In my day inventive genius had not bared her hand 
very largely. There were no fire or steam engines, 
no steamboats, no railroad, no sewing machine, no 
piano-forte, no photography, no electrotyping, no gas 
or electric lighting, no locomotive, no matches, no 
barometer, no balloons, no air pump, no mower, 
reaper and harvester, no hydraulic press, no phono- 
graph, no telephone, no electric telegraph, no efficient 
watch. The microscope was born with me. And you 
wonder how life was endurable. Yet apparently mine 
was as happy and as full of blessedness as is yours 
now, for I had not known of these improvements and 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 35 

advancements. The telephone, the most useful inven- 
tion of modern business life, has come into use within 
your memory perhaps. Many of you recall a period 
when it was unknown, yet the busy marts of the 
world were operated as smoothly and as well as now. 
Until we possess a commodity we are not inconveni- 
enced by its absence. 

Since my birth more wonderful and useful discov- 
eries and inventions have been made than during the 
existence of the world prior thereto. For over ten 
thousand years the only vehicle of transportation on 
land used by man was a cart with wooden wheels 
drawn by a dumb animal. The glittering chariot in 
the splendors of ancient Eome was but one of these 
crude carts adorned; and where would a Roman 
chariot be now compared with a great power auto- 
mobile? Greater strides have been made in modes of 
conveyance during the last one hundred years than 
had been attained in the entire time of the existence 
of the planet dating to that period. 

When a man having a father in the grave who 
fifty years ago followed the sea and knew of the fatal 
wreckages of the great watery highway, can now 
stand on the shore and send messages to and receive 
them from vessels in the middle of the ocean, even 
while the darkness of night and the fury of storms 
prevail, is it any wonder that in his wish he would 
wrest that corpse from the grasp of death and reveal 
the marvelous wonders of the progress of the ages? 
Vainly would he dig the dust from the tomb, drag 
forth in the fury of his enthusiasm the skeleton from 
its sepulchral sleep, arouse it from the lethargy of 
death, and cry into its deafened ears, "By the God 



36 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and the power above us, my father open those wasted 
eyes, peer out from those sunken sockets, behold for 
an instant, ere you relapse to the dream of the tomb, 
the marvelous work of man's mind!" 

But peace to his ashes, the intelligence rests not in 
the sepulchre. Father is not the wasted skeleton you 
would drag forth. He is risen, as is all the world 
whom the angel Death has touched, and they know 
of the improvement and the progress of, the ages, just 
as do you and your friend — Virginia Dare. 



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DOCTOR THOMAS. 
Phocion. 

Thomas, one of the gentlest, most confiding and 
best learned of the famous twelve disciples of Jesus, 
through various and erroneous translations of so- 
called holy writ, has been for many years known of 
as "Doubting" Thomas, until this term is almost uni- 
versally applied to persons who are regarded as 
doubting apparent facts. Instead of "Doubting" 
Thomas proper translations should have read "Doc- 
tor" Thomas. 

Considering the narrow boundaries set about medi- 
cal and surgical progress in those early days and 
primitive localities, Thomas was well skilled in a 
medical and surgical line, and on more than a few 
occasions used his knowledge to the highest degree 
permitted in that day. Post-mortem examination as 
practiced now was then prohibited by the law. Hence 
information was gained through avenues of accident 
largely. When Jesus was released from the cross 
Thomas, the only surgeon near, availed himself of an 
opportunity offered by the gash in the side made by 
the soldier's spear to hurriedly but carefully examine 
the exposed heart, lungs and other internal organs, 
and he did not hesitate to affirm that the victim came 
to death by an abrasion of the walls of the heart, and 
not from the more extended suffering of crucifixion. 
Later when in the closed room Jesus appeared and 
Thomas was present, it was not through any doubt 
of mind that the appearance was the crucified one 



38 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

that he made an examination of the hole prints in his 
hands and the wonnd in his side. It was done rather 
by request of the other disciples, who were really the 
doubting ones regarding Thomas as the one able to do 
so and by the desire on the part of Thomas to study 
the appearance of the wounds, external and internal, 
as compared with their appearance immediately after 
his death ensued, and to know whether in a material- 
ized form all the internal organs were formed anew. 
The term "Doubting" Thomas cannot be rightly ap- 
plied to this disciple. He was Doctor Thomas. 




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RANDOM THOUGHTS. 

Abraham Lincoln. 

The millennium is yet so far away that men's pas- 
sions cannot at all times be curbed by peace con- 
gresses and arbitration committees. Hence, when 
opposing factions form, each believing honestly, ear- 
nestly and irrevocably itself to be in the right, wars 
are as possible and as imminent in the land today as 
they ever were. So, "in time of peace be prepared 
for war." 

Like the moth that flies into the flame and destroys 
itself are men and women unconscious of many of 
the dangers which surround them. With more intel- 
ligence than moths, people in a measure protect each 
other. When men build a bridge they put up a railing 
to keep others who may desire to cross it from walk- 
ing off into the chasm or river beneath, notwithstand- 
ing the latter would know it was a bridge and that 
danger lurked there. Windows at extreme heights 
are enclosed with bars or otherwise to keep persons 
from falling out. It is an instance of the babe shut 
in by the garden gate, and the older babe shut in 
by the latticed tower window. "Look out for the loco- 
motive" seems a necessary sign to keep some people 
from a wrestling match with a railroad train. 

In public places "Beware of Pickpockets" signs 
remind you of a fact you well know, that light-fin- 
gered gentlemen may be near you. Strangely by a 



40 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

lack of alertness of the mind it requires stimulation, 
and it is told by these mute sentinels to guard your 
valuables if you have any about you. 

The way to get a drove of horses or a flock of sheep 
to ford or swim a creek or river is to have one set 
the example, then all the others will follow. One 
buffalo will start a stampede of a whole herd on the 
prairies. A man may be so obscure as scarcely to 
occupy a thought of any one's mind, but let a wave 
of contemplation be started in his direction as a can- 
didate for the Presidency of the United States, and 
there will be a whirlwind of preference directed to- 
ward him. A man is elected to the Presidency, but 
his real worth or his fitness for the exalted place is 
not known. Like the convict in prison, he must serve 
his time ere one can know what the real character 
development of the man is. 

Ninety per cent, of the people wear masks, and until 
those are removed the remaining ten per cent, are 
classed with the former. Nine-tenths of the troubles 
of the mortal world are caused by misunderstand- 
ings, and the remaining tenth has not happened yet. 



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REGRETS OF GRADUAL PROGRESSION. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

Although we are going onward to conditions better 
than our present ones, yet we cannot stay feelings of 
sadness at the thought of what we are leaving behind. 
There is a sense of regret that we are leaving things 
which we regret to leave. We kiss the dimpled cheek 
and stroke the golden curls of the little child that 
fondles at our knee. We know he is growing to some- 
thing greater, nobler and more useful, yet we regret 
to see the child die into the grown-up man. You 
would keep the little soft cheek pressed against your 
own, yet you welcome the manhood to which the child 
shall grow. 

The days of our early struggles when we romped 
under the old elm on the green in front of the little 
cottage in which we were born are dear to us when 
the success and affluence of later days place us in 
a palace of luxury and ease. The law is inevitable 
that we cannot possess two inconsistent good things 
together. We cannot as a child frolic in the orchard in 
the country and shout in childish glee to the rhythm 
of babbling brooks and songbirds in the trees, and at 
the same time as a man be proud of our genius and 
power and influence. We cannot dwell in the little 
crude cottage by the hillside and hear the frogs pipe 
and croak when the evening shades thicken, and at the 
same time dwell in the mansion on the mountain top 
and dream in the melodies of a harp of a thousand 
strings. We cannot at once be the merchant prince 



42 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

in the town and the bare-foot boy wading in the 
swamps of a rural clime. And though we know it is 
well these evolutions occur, it is with sadness that 
we dwell in the memory of these earlier things. 

These are the sentiments of every human being. 
And as we reach out into futurity for a life higher, 
purer, better in the Great Beyond, we regretfully let 
go of the simpler, lesser developments of the life on 
earth. 

It is in the human soul to praise God for what we 
have been, have had, and for what we are to be and 
are to have. We anticipate heaven not without re- 
gret that we leave earth. 

And thus do the first joys of memory so sweet 
Die into the heaven we afterward meet. 



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EDUCATION. 

Elizabeth Wright-Menafee. 

Founder Voorhees Industrial School, Denmark, S. C. 

The word Education does not mean the mere ac- 
quirement of the rules of grammar, or a knowledge of 
hydraulics or of mathematics. In other words, the 
understanding of the three R's — reading, riting and 
rithmetic — or a familiarity with etymology, syntax 
and prosody, does not constitute education. Those 
are departments of learning, but thorough, real edu- 
cation means the uplift of the spirit to the apex stone 
on the pyramid of universal wisdom. It does not 
concern only the mortal world, but must embrace 
those spirit realms to which we are going, to which 
we belong, of which we are a part. Earth life is but 
the kindergarten, the introduction, the prelude to the 
great and lasting chapters of the drama of eternal ex- 
istence. Education to be efficient must embrace all 
that relates to us in the eternity of which our mortal 
experience is but the dawn of the day. 

Education is obtained only by degrees. We cannot 
jump at once to the summit of complete knowledge. 
The logs of the primitive cabin were laid before men 
knew how to build with blocks of granite, the tim- 
bers preceded the girders of steel, the telegraph led up 
to the telephone. The later developments were pos- 
sible at the time of the early ones, but the steady tread 
of education was necessary from one up to the other. 
The baby crawled along the floor ere it walked. But 
if the telegraph and the timber and the log had sat- 



44 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

isfied the forward tendency of the spirit, the tele- 
phone, the steel girder and the granite block would 
still have been unknown. If the complete knowledge 
of geography had sufficed, you would not have known 
anything of geometry. If the study of the earth had 
been sufficient, you would never have seen the rings 
of Saturn or the moons of Jupiter. If the creeping 
across the floor had ended the desire for further de- 
velopment, men and women to-day would be crawling 
like worms. Education means the attainment of 
the concepts of the developing mind. Birds fly be- 
cause the species in the beginning longed to. It was 
the impulse of the spirit. Imprison a new-born bird 
that has never flown, and when it arrives at the age 
of self-levitation it will not be able to fly. It must 
educate itself to the act. A horse is as intelligent as 
a bird, but it has no desire to fly and probably it 
never will. Man craves to fly and he soon will. His 
education is going on. 

During my mortal days I studied to learn. I 
founded an educational institution, but I was not at 
rest with that. I sought information of the other 
world I was destined to inhabit. When at an early 
age I transcended the environments of the terrestrial 
globe, I craved knowledge in the celestial spheres, and 
I have only begun the great march thitherward. I 
see the everlasting sunshine of wise erudition gleam- 
ing over the hills of the promised land. I say hills, 
for they are here for us to climb as on earth — the hills 
of progress and perfection. At their top glistens the 
citadel toward which we are struggling — the fullness 
of perfect unfoldment which shall some day illumine 
the millennium period of earth and heaven. As I listen 
adown the everlasting slopes from which I have 
climbed, I hear the advancing tread of an endless 
army of knowledge-seekers from the valley ; and look- 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 45 

ing aloft I watch in the fading vista the vanguard in 
their onward tramp, tramp, tramp — these warriors 
from earth like the golden trumpeters of the sky, the 
sun-kissed clouds of the storm-cleared dome. On- 
ward they come and onward they go toward the Alps 
of complete development. But it is a happy climb. 
We now and then break ranks, we bivouac on the 
way; it is like going a-Maying, we pick the wild 
flowers in the spring and summer-time fields of the 
summerland. We may all be happy in the acquire- 
ment of education. If we cannot have a palace, we 
can have a place; if we cannot have a rosebush we 
can have a rose. No one need fear death, for the 
ransom is so great. The little struggle of the spirit 
away from the body is like the bee leaving the flower 
it has sipped the honey from. Then the experience 
of demise is not unpleasant. I looked about me, sud- 
denly I closed my eyes and opened them in wide fields 
of educational opportunities. 

It was so I had desired to depart, 
'Twas thus that the summons were given ; 

There was a quiver; a pause of the heart, 
A vision of angels — then heaven! 




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THE FALLING WORLDS OF THE UNIVERSE. 

Edmund Halley. 

Bring to your mind's eye a picture of a number of 
small globes of various sizes heavier than air, dropped 
from the top of a tall building, and see them falling 
through the air to the ground below, each retaining 
its relative position occupied at the start. Now con- 
tinue the picture and see the ground withdrawn, and 
an endless chasm through which these little globes 
shall fall. In this picture you have a miniature of 
the real scene of the worlds, not only of your own 
solar system, but of the unseen and unknown stellar 
systems in the fathomless distances of endless space. 
Take for example our own great universe, the sun, 
planets and visible stars, as well as the great dark 
stars — those great black worlds in space that ages 
ago died, as the stars die, but hold their places in 
the midst of their fiery companions. It has been and 
is believed by most persons that this greater system 
of worlds revolves in a fixed place in space, each 
world performing its revolutions; and by the law of 
gravity, attraction and repulsion, sustaining its rela- 
tive position. It is believed erroneously that these 
worlds occupy the same place in space to-day they 
did at their beginning. This appears to the common 
mind because the fallacy is made of measuring the 
condition and position of the planet earth by the 
standard of the earth's position from its sister stars. 
But as a matter of fact they never occupy place in the 
same space two consecutive moments. They are re- 



48 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

volving on their axis, performing their annual rotary 
movements, but the entire systems of worlds are as 
a whole at the same time falling in space. You have 
seen a line of little fiery globes shot up in a sky- 
rocket emerge from the explosion and tied together at 
fixed distances, float outward, onward and finally 
downward. Just so are the movements of the uni- 
verse of worlds tied together as they are by the law 
of attraction, they remain at relative distances from 
each other, yet a mass of worlds all falling in the 
endless spaces about them, have been falling since 
they came into existence, and will continue as long 
as they remain worlds. The finite mind cannot con- 
ceive of the measureless distance these worlds are to- 
day from the places they held at their beginning. 
Electricity is not evolved from the worlds and their 
atmospheres only. These great spaces are constantly 
sending forth wave currents and cross currents of 
electrical conditions. Your world and the sister 
worlds are passing through these varying electric cur- 
rents all the time, sensing their energies as they are 
distributed upon them. While a somewhat fixed state 
of seasons prevails in your world owing to its dis- 
tance from the sun, yet the great and varying electric 
currents encountered in this aerial change of position 
of the whole mass of worlds make the heat and the 
cold, the wind and the calm, vary upon the earth. 
Hence, while the worlds are in the same position rela- 
tively to each other this day in June they were the 
same day last June, they are not as a whole in the 
same sphere currents, and the weather is not there- 
fore the same. 



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THE POWER OF MIND. 
Franz Anton Mesmer. 

As the days approaching the millennium pass regu- 
larly by, the student of nature arrives more closely 
at an understanding of the methods of mental action 
and to greater appreciation of the same. It is be- 
coming universally known now to persons of thought 
that mind entirely governs matter. One without mind 
or rather without ability to exercise it at will, as 
when in slumber or under the influence of an anaes- 
thetic, or when it is stultified by accident or disease, 
becomes at once a helpless being. When the func- 
tions of the mind are subdued individuality ends, per- 
sonality ceases. 

These are facts demonstrated in instances of the 
exercise of the hypnotic power. The mind of the 
operator becomes the mental power of the subject. 
He becomes what the mind of the hypnotist pictures. 
In another form you have it verified by the action of 
your mind over your own body. If you place your 
hand flat upon a table and remove all mental in- 
fluence from it, the hand will remain upon the table, 
remain there until your thought takes it away. When 
you walk along the street and you intend to change 
your course at a certain intersection of a street, and 
go out that street in a cross direction, you immedi- 
ately turn when you reach that intersection, and go 
in the other direction, and without apparently any 
effort. Your body acts according to the action of 
your mind, 



50 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

The mind cure! What is that? It is a form of 
mental influence to remove the ills of afflicted parts. 
Can the mind do this? Oh, yes, without doubt. How? 
By deep breathing. But not without the concomi- 
tant process of mental action. Deep breathing is the 
result in every instance of thought power, and af- 
flicted parts reached direct by deep breathing are 
readily relieved by it. But how shall you reach with 
the breath those parts of the body remote from the 
breathing organs? In this way: Breathe deeply, in- 
hale all the air into the lungs you possibly can, and 
at the same time concentrate with all the energy pos- 
sible the mind upon the afflicted part, the shoulder 
blade or the knee joint. The deep inhalations dis- 
tribute the air from the lungs into the blood. The con- 
centration of the mentality upon the affected part 
drives the blood holding the air in great profusion 
to that point, and a cure is accomplished. 

Breathe deeply, inflate the lungs fully with the 
healing balm of pure air, concentrate the mind upon 
the shoulder blade or the knee joint, and you will 
heal without drugs or other applications. 

The power of mind, commanding the accessories 
of nature, distributes a quality needed for every ail- 
ment. 




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THE SEANCE ON MOUNT SINAI. 

Moses. 

"And the Lord said unto Moses, 'Come up to me 
into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee 
tables of stone and a law and commandments that 
thou mayest teach them.' " 

"And Moses rose up into the mount of God and a 
cloud covered the mount, and the glory of the Lord 
abode upon Mount Sinai. And the Lord said unto 
Moses, 'Go down, charge the people lest they break 
through to gaze.' And Moses said, 'The people cannot 
come upon Mount Sinai.' " 

Now I, Moses, cometh unto ye this night in the city 
of New York, and speak unto ye saying, I had bounds 
set around Sinai that the multitudes should not come 
upon the Mount and interrupt the writing and talk- 
ing seance. The giving of the tables of stone meant 
the giving me the place to find them. 

The glory of the Lord was the harmonious condition 
necessary. The tables of stone were smooth plates 
or slabs of soft stone or slate deposit. I hewed cross 
sticks from a tree, and laid on them the slabs, one 
on top and one on the bottom, and between them I 
placed a pebble of sapphire, and a great cloud over- 
shadowed my sitting place, to subdue the light, and 
in the midst of the darkness the great commandments 
were scratched upon the surface of the tablets by an 
angel hand sent thither by the Lord. And a voice 



52 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

of an angel of the Lord through a silver trumpet 
spake when the seance was over. And then I went 
down unto the people and some believed and divers 
others believed not in the manner of the writing. And 
thus occurred the memorable stone or slate-writing 
and trumpet seance of Mount Sinai. 






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FRANCE AND THE ITALIAN TROUBLES. 
Napoleon III. 

At the close of the year 1848, having been elected 
President of the French republic over Cavaignac and 
Lamar tine by five million votes, and in 1851 con- 
stituted Emperor of France by a vote of eight mil- 
lions against two hundred and fifty thousand oppos- 
ing, because of the Bonapartist feeling and my de- 
scent therefrom, my natural tendency was a system 
of government in line as far as practicable with that 
of my uncle Napoleon Bonaparte. 

Briefly mentioned events are matters of history: 
With Uncle Bonaparte in Egypt the first year of the 
last century, his arrangement of affairs in Italy had 
gone utterly to pieces. Boundaries, principalities and 
princes had been displaced, the Naples district had 
become the Parthenopean republic, Carl Emmanuele 
of Lardinia had gone, Pius the VI. fled from Rome 
to a deathbed in France. 

All know what followed the Crown at St. Ambrogia 
in 1804: Ferdinand saw Naples, Tuscany became 
the Kingdom of Etruria, the Pope remained in Rome, 
Eugene Beauharnais ruled the Ligurian and Cisal- 
pine republics and came under the magic wand of 
Uncle Bonaparte Austerlitz, Venice and Naples. 

It was natural for France to feel a sovereignty over 
Italy, for had she not resurrected her out of the ashes 
of misrule and protected her from its effects in the 
first few years of the nineteenth century — a series of 
events sadly predicating her return, upon the fall of 



54 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

the first Napoleon, to the former despotic Spanish- 
Italo-Teutonic subjugation? The political reign of 
terror, aided and abetted by Austria, which followed 
crushed out the real spirit of Italian liberalism. 

In 1859 Garibaldi's intentions were plans hostile to 
all that leaned toward fair French rule. He had 
vaingloriously proclaimed himself dictator in the 
name of King Vittoris Emmanuele of Italy, and had 
not concealed his intention to march on Rome. Enter- 
ing into a pact with Italy to withdraw all French 
troops from Rome, provided Italy respected what re- 
mained of the Pope's temporal power, I did so with- 
draw them in good faith in 1866, only to be confronted 
with the uprising of Garibaldi with the threat that 
he would "take Rome or die !" 

It is true that in 1830, when a young man of only 
twenty-two years, unschooled in affairs of state and 
the government of countries, of venturesome boyish 
spirit, I had taken a stand to a slight degree against 
the power of the Pope in Romagna, but a more 
thorough knowledge of existing conditions revealed 
to me in later life the fallacy of my former conclu- 
sions. 

I regard it as absurd for Garibaldi to in any way 
connect with these military operations in 1859, the 
fall of the French empire a decade of years later, or 
the transition of myself thirteen years afterward, or 
the killing of my beloved son, Napoleon Eugene Louis, 
in Zululand twenty years afterward. The imputation 
laid on these sad events of transition which must 
occur to the whole human race is unfair, to say the 
least. 



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THE FATE OF ITALY AND THE FALL OF THE 
FRENCH EMPIRE. 

Giuseppe Garibaldi. 

Though wounded and cast into prison and forced 
to submit to indignities beneath my station in life 
by the people I sought to benefit, I enjoyed the satis- 
faction of knowing I had striven with all the zeal at 
my command to redeem Southern Italy from an 
Egyptian bondage blacker than any proverbial Egyp- 
tian darkness ever known. 

The ideal labor of my life was to give Victor Em- 
manuel the greatest boon of his day, the brightest 
jewel that ever studded a monarch's diadem of power. 
I failed in the effort because the combined powers 
were arrayed against me. And yet I received the 
blessings of the friends of freedom throughout the 
civilized world. An Italian army marched against 
me, an Italian fortress held me a wounded prisoner 
in its bondage. The establishment of Italy's freedom 
I worked hard to achieve. 

Perhaps Victor Emmanuel had no choice. No doubt 
he feared the ire of Napoleon III. of France. But I 
am assured now in the spirit realm by Count Cavour 
that had he lived during the terrible question that 
was rocking Italy, he would not have tarnished the 
crown as did Emmanuel. 

Louis Napoleon of France, as is well known, gave 
great impetus to the adverse movement. But he was 
well paid in the annexation of Nice and Savoy. His 
weakness was so pronounced that it might well have 



56 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

been termed a crime. And has it not come to pass 
that his page in the affair was a dark one in the 
history of France, showing as it has that Italy was 
thwarted in her desire for unity by the French occu- 
pation of Rome? The Empress was a great obstruc- 
tion in the way of a settlement of the Eoman ques- 
tion. She feared lest more misfortune fall upon her 
son if the French government were to take steps 
against the Head of the Church. But see how swift 
justice placed France in the balance. Eight years 
later came a retributive train of events : The Franco- 
Prussian war, Napoleon dethroned, the Prince Im- 
perial translated to the spirit world, Eugenie exiled 
and the empire made a republic. 

The great hindrance to the freedom of Italy swept 
away as by a whirlwind. And all that I fought and 
bled and suffered for shall come to pass. It is the 
edict of the supernal world. 

"Ever the truth comes uppermost, 
And ever is justice done." 



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THE DREAD OF DEATH, OR DEATH, LIFE 
AND THE SPIRIT. 

Herbert Spencer. 

In all ages of which we possess even the most re- 
mote history the dread and the fear of death, physical 
death, have dominated every living creature. 

The spider at the slightest touch has recoiled itself 
into a ball, feigning the very state which it seeks 
thus to avoid. The fly would spring away at the 
wave of a hand to protect itself from seeming danger. 
The toad has hopped squeaking ahead of the chasing 
serpent, the chicken has hidden from the hawk. The 
small fish of the sea swim away from the devouring 
large ones. The fox has run before the hound, and 
the mouse from the cat. The sizes or capacities of 
these victims of dread do not regulate them. The 
smallest gnat is as quick to observe a cause for pos- 
sible death as is the lion or the elephant. 

Mankind is as vigilant. In this case, as in all, 
eternal vigilance is not the price of liberty only, but 
of physical life itself. All act involuntarily, ever 
to the mandate of nature looking to self-preservation. 
The repugnance to death, the tenacity for life, demon- 
strate intelligence in all forms of living beings. They 
show there is within a consciousness of the life 
that is. 

Life cannot be destroyed, you cannot kill life. And 
life consciousness, and the desire, the innate desire 
to live, show that all life is immortal. It can no 
more perish in the spider or the fly than in Jesus 



58 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

of Nazareth or John the Baptist. Hence all life 
continues. But as the spirits of men are graded in 
spheres or realms here according to their degrees of 
development, so are the insects, the fishes, the ani- 
mals, graded in territories suiting their peculiar life 
and development over here. 

In the great design of the All- Wise, one creature 
does not intrude upon another in the perfected realms 
of the spirit world. 

Who of us is wise enough to say which shall and 
which shall not survive? 



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THE LAW OF PARENTAGE. 

Daoud, 

(The Soul Mother of the Compiler of This Book.) 

Translated by Aniuzaac, a Ruler of the Province of Amia, in 

Atlantis, the Lost Continent, and Transcribed 

by Wm. T. Stead. 

Long before the slopes of the Nile pinioned its 
silvery stream, and before the Arno's dreamy flow 
through the fertile plains of Pisa and Arezzo, before 
ancient Rome had emerged from its baby clothes and 
the hanging gardens of Babylon had become one of 
the seven wonders of the world, before the dawn of 
the Christian era and the days of Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob, I lived, for I dwelt in Amia, the seventh 
province of Atlantis, fourteen thousand years ago. 

You, too, dear child of the soul, lived in Atlantis 
during one of your early incarnations. Just as 
through the brief span of a lifetime on earth one has 
a spirit guide to look after the spiritual needs of the 
life, so through all the embodiments, covering incal- 
culable periods of time, does each person have a 
mother and father of the soul, whose combined 
watchfulness makes a guardian spirit of the ages. I 
have been your soul mother from the beginning and 
have kept the eternal vigilance of the ages in all your 
incarnations. 

When as a child you dipped your little feet in the 
winding streams of sunny Italy before it was Italy; 
when in another incarnation, wrapped in the skins 
of animals now extinct, you trod the icebergs of the 



60 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

frozen zones, when frigid Greenland formed its icicles 
and amorous sunbeams of the tropics later kissed 
them away; when you as a Grecian watched the rise 
of the Temple of Minerva on the Acropolis of Athens, 
and as a maiden of Greece your beauty challenged 
the decorations of famous Phidias, and in other, and 
other, and other incarnations I faithfully watched 
over you, and was thy soul mother, the guardian of 
thy soul in its many evolutions. 

As God is termed the Father of all in all times, so 
has the human being a soul father and mother, who 
guide and guard it through its many and remote in- 
carnations. 




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THE ILL EFFECTS OF WAR STATUES. 

U. S. Grant. 

Let us have peace, was and is my motto. When in 
the sixties sectional strife was high it was not re- 
garded as possible that the bitterness of feeling exist- 
ent could be allayed during the lifetime of those who 
actively or inactively participated in the war. Even 
as late as the Presidential term of Grover Cleveland 
the animosities still lingering in the North and the 
South were exhibited. President Cleveland ordered 
the battle flags captured from the South restored to 
the regiments that fought under the stars and bars. 
But so alarming was the outcry in the North against 
this proposal that the order was rescinded. But time 
and events, especially of the Spanish-American war 
in 1898, in which the North and the South unitedly 
took up arms against Spain, so softened public senti- 
ment north of Mason and Dixon's line that it became 
possible for President Roosevelt to carry out what 
President Cleveland had inaugurated only a few 
years before. This act accorded comfortably with 
my sentiments, and events have shown the wisdom 
of my leniency at Appomattox, where I told General 
Lee's surrendered army to keep their horses and take 
them home, for they would need them in the spring 
plowing. That course at the immediate ending of 
hostilities in the field, though not sanctioned at the 
time by the war department at Washington, con- 
tributed much toward engendering harmony in the 
entire country. 



62 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

Every act, every thought, put forth toward the 
soothing of factional strife in a land of brothers and 
sisters, is highly desirable and adds to the success- 
ful cementing of affections. The two divisions must 
avoid a display which revives the bitterness of that 
awful period of devastation, human suffering and 
death. For this reason I deprecate the erection of 
equestrian and other war statues, standing in the 
parks, streets and buildings of almost every city of 
the North and South. These statues, grand and beau- 
tiful in themselves, perpetuate memories of the most 
horrible epoch in American history. The rush to 
arms is the act of ignorance, a relic of barbarism, and 
bids the devil in man to come to the front. 

These statues commemorate no lofty sentiment, 
nothing Christ-like, pure or humane, but, on the con- 
trary, remind us of men's passion and the fury of 
hell. On each pedestal of these war statues stands 
a lasting picture of a butcher of human lives, of 
terror brought to the land, of wives widowed, chil- 
dren orphaned, and suffering and sorrow appalling, 
not alone in the home land, but all over the world. 

Perfect serenity of soul, harmony of mind, forget- 
fulness of sickening and deadly scenes cannot be 
effected while these bronze and stone monuments face 
us with a silence which speaks louder than the can- 
non's breath and the bayonet's clash. 

Let us have peace. 



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THE INFLUENCE OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE 
EFFORTS ON THE UNBORN. 

Susan B. Anthony. 

It is a well known fact that most great progres- 
sive movements are precipitated suddenly. It is an 
old saying that when the people of a community 
thought or contemplated the building of a railroad, 
they had to talk it over for twenty years before they 
began to build it. 

And you have no doubt observed that it has not 
been the old or original projectors, but a new gen- 
eration of people who have put the talked of project 
into actual being. There is a peculiar psychological 
law governing this. Thoughts become things. The 
thought of the forefather impregnates the embryo 
descendant and becomes a thing. The father thinks 
out the railroad and the then unborn son later builds 
it. The slave question was agitated many years 
before the younger generation wiped it out of the 
American states. A free mind had deprecated all 
institutions of human slavery when Abraham Lincoln 
and Wendell Phillips slept in their mothers' wombs. 

All important political factions were formed long 
prior to their coming into being. Useful and start- 
ling inventions were studied ere they became mater- 
ialized theories. Benjamin Franklin locked a flash 
of lightning with his famous key, while Morse and 
Edison and Marconi were unborn. Mammoth build- 
ings were towering in men's brains before the sky- 
scrapers of lower New York had been heard of. Many 



64 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

a man in his mentality crossed the Niagara rapids 
and the rivers of the world ere suspension bridges 
spanned the roaring narrows and waterways. Ages 
before Sam Patch jumped into the Falls of the 
Genesee, and Eoebling engineered the great span 
across the East Biver in New York, a little spider 
spun his web from one projecting rock across to 
another, and boldly walked over. The spider built 
the first suspension bridge, your grandfather saw 
it and he thought, and through the vast resources of 
psychological influences and telepathic wave radia- 
tions this thought became a part of the unevoluted 
life principle, and later the new man worked out in 
magnificent realization what his grandfather had 
thought and what the spider had thought long in 
advance of him. The wonderful evolution of a 
thought! Empires have risen and fallen long after 
the questions affecting them have agitated the men- 
talities of men and women. Then when the great 
innovations came they were plunged suddenly and 
unheralded upon an amazed people. The earlier 
thought has had its effect upon the prenatal life. 
That which is discussed and considered and studied 
now becomes a fact in the prenatal state, and when 
this new generation buds forth these designs, plans 
and ideas are easily taken up. They have become 
conditions of fact upon the unborn child. Woman 
suffrage cannot reach any marked degree of success 
during the present generation in which it has only 
been intelligently agitated. 

But its principles and precepts are being impressed 
upon the mentality of a coming generation of intel- 
lectual men and women who will place the suffrage 
question where it belongs. 



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HISTOKY REPEATING ITSELF SHOWN IN 

THE KISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES 

AND IN THE RECURRING 

EVENTS OF ALL AGES. 

Darwin. 

There was a time in the history of the world before 
the present when everything in it was in exactly the 
same position as to-day. 

Every blade of grass was made of the identical 
parts, every bush, every rock, every drop of water, 
was in the same place as now. The brick that tops 
the chimney in the house in which you dwell was on 
the same chimney of the same house and formed pre- 
cisely the same before. Every grain of sand that is 
tossed and rolled on the great stretches of sea beach 
was there before. This seems like a more exaggerated 
statement than it is. But all changes in the uni- 
verse are repeating themselves over and over. 

Fathomless, thinkless wastes of time are occupied 
in these reproductions. 

But what of that? Not only have these changes 
been taking place in this world, but in all other 
worlds and in the interims the worlds themselves, 
the great systems of the universes have been coming 
into and going out of their forms of existence, at 
periods being even blotted into shapeless masses, and 
even disintegrated, and in the mighty processes of 
evolutionary influence formed anew time after time 
in the precise states they now are in. 



66 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

Glance at the rise and fall of empires. Where 
Home was is devastation; where devastation is Kome 
was. Before Eome there was a howling wilderness. 
Where wild beasts roamed in the jungled thickets 
empires of learning, culture, science, art, have reared 
their marble facades ; and in the morasses of the wil- 
derness of swamps and monstrous serpents, platoons 
of granite have held the mightiness of civilization. 
Nothing remains inactive. Change is the universal 
law; and as a given quantity can make only a given 
number of changes they must become repetitions. 

But to comprehend the recurring events of count- 
less time you must place yourself outside of time, 
must in thought pass beyond all limitations set by 
time, and conceive of the worlds of the universe being, 
as it were, annihilated so far as all present form and 
shape are concerned, and then see them rebuilding 
into the former identical spheres. 

A man builds a home, it gets old, it crumbles to 
pieces, the pieces rot, they become fungi, they reach 
liquid states, the earth absorbs them and becomes en- 
riched, vines and bushes and grasses spring up on 
the same spot, then decay in the earth. The house 
comes up in the bush and the vine and the grass. 
Then in the passing ages trees grow up, formed of 
the same pieces of material as the trees that builded 
the first house, but the pieces are not in the same 
places. They have become transposed. These trees 
are made into boards, they build another house re- 
mote from the location of the other. This house 
goes down through the ravages of time. Decaying 
particles are carried hither and thither by the vary- 
ing winds, they reach the clouds in moisture, the 
rainfalls deposit them in the ocean, they help form 
the physical bodies of fishes, then die, go into decom- 
position, decay, disintegration ; and they form a grain 



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of beach sand or pebble, the grain of sand is washed 
for countless ages by the eternal swish of the sea, 
it is swept across the ocean, it crumbles in decay 
and passes through all the changes known and un- 
known, and through the passing ages a particle gets 
to the place of the first tree spoken of. Another tree 
rises and falls, ages pass on, the lights of the firma- 
ment one by one are blotted out, a long night ■ of 
countless ages reigns, and the great unlighted ether 
is like an endless ocean of darkness. Then in the 
gray morning of a new era a light begins to shimmer 
through the mists of the ocean of ether, it is a star, 
a sun formed over again, and in time a new system 
of worlds comes into being. They twinkle in their 
distant orbits till again they pass from shape and 
form. This is repeated a thousand, yes, a hundred 
thousand million times until the field-glass of nature 
reflects again the same veritable spheres in the same 
spaces of the vapors about, formed again as they had 
been before. 

Then occur and recur the changes on the earth 
until again rises the same tree that builded the same 
house before, every atom is restored to its former 
position. 

The vast time required for all this is outside of 
time itself and for the brain to try to conceive of it 
would ossify ere it approached the merest conception 
of it. But everything that is in the world to-day was 
here and in the same relative position before. Matter 
is as indestructible as spirit, for it is spirit, and 
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CHURCH AND STATE. 

Benjamin Disraeli. 

I have been and am in favor of free inquiry on all 
subjects, civil and religious, but I contend that the 
outcome of all inqury should be the result of exam- 
ination and discussion conducted with learning and 
conscience. 

The religious and civil question has in its early 
inception been much governed by the theosophical 
philosophy of Germany. 

About one hundred and fifty years ago the theology 
which was mystical began to be critical, and a sys- 
tem was devised for the interpretation of Divine 
Scripture, which it accepted with objection, and with 
which it undertook to explain all the then-called sup- 
ernaturalism by natural causes. In a few years the 
rationalism, so-termed, absorbed the intellect of Ger- 
many, being supported by both learning and ingen- 
uity. 

Every Protestant community felt its influence. In 
less than one hundred years later German rational- 
ism was shown to be irrational. And now arose a 
new system called the Mythical, but in turn that was 
shown to be a myth, and return was made to Pagan 
Pantheism. 

Now, one hundred and fifty years later, what has 
the church to fear in all these speculations so dis- 
cordant? Nothing! No religious creed was ever de- 
stroyed by a philosophical theory, often full of error 
and with no substantial backing. In my opinion 
church should repulse error, not punish it. 



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I believed in the union of church and state and 
deprecated the onslaught upon the church in parlia- 
ment. But now as a spirit I have to repudiate my 
theory that the connection between church and state 
is to be upheld and vindicated as the soundest prin- 
ciple of political theological philosophy. I quite 
admit that the most powerful principle which governs 
man is the religious one. It is eternal because it 
originates in human intelligence. 

I also repudiate my idea that a wise government, 
availing itself of sectarian religion — not the univer- 
sal religious principle of common good and truth so 
conspicuous in Spiritualism — would consecrate so- 
ciety and sanctify the state. I believe now that the 
Church of England is not conducive to religious 
liberty. I believe that in the religion of Spiritualism 
is a ground upon which religious followers can unite, 
and should, then there might follow that broad- 
minded unity of church and state in the highest, 
broadest, purest, most beautiful conception. 

In the broader religious thought of the world you 
will have no trouble to find a union of it with state, 
and accord to each the privilege due. And with the 
banishment of all hitherto prevailing religions, unit- 
ing on the broad foundation of pure spiritual teach- 
ing your charities will not be assailed, your public 
worship will not be abused, the sacred fabrics of 
the marriage relation will not be destroyed, and your 
graveyards will not be robbed to supply the denizens 
of the heaven and the hell of ecclesiastical powers. 



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LET US CULTIVATE HUMANE INCLINATIONS. 
Henry Bergh. 

As is stated in another writer's article that all 
living creatures have spirits, it may be deduced that 
what affects one spirit either pleasantly or unpleas- 
antly, or what is a physical shock to one creature is 
pretty likely to in some degree affect similarly all 
others, allowing of course for the variation in brain 
development and consciousness. In another writing 
the fear of death is treated ably, and we may in this 
case likewise deduce that if there is a fear of death 
there is an accompanying fear or dread of pain, and 
all living creatures we know protect themselves, 
either intuitively, instinctively or intellectually, from 
impending pain. Violent death whether resulting 
from accident, intention or by decree of state, is 
always a shock to the community in which it occurs. 

As we more finely develop our sensibilities the more 
severely do these occurrences shock us. It is to many 
persons as unpleasant to look upon the butchery of 
a dumb animal as upon the execution of a human 
being. 

Though one of these acts is the outcome of the 
widely conceded necessity for the providing of food 
for man, and the other for the protection of the 
law-abiding citizen, neither is really essential. Ample 
food is found aside from animal flesh, and capital 
punishment is not a deterrent of crime, if we may 
judge by the statistics of states maintaining that 
mode of punishment and of those having abolished 
it. These violent acts are shocks to the community, 



72 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and what shocks the people is not good for their moral 
advancement. The same God that made you made 
the cow. You have no more moral right to slaughter 
the cow to feed your body than a lion has to devour 
you. In both instances it is might instead of right 
that becomes the assassin. But if under the present 
state of the world's adherence to certain forms of 
procedure in these matters, instead of devoting so 
much time and study and discussion to determine the 
most humane manner of putting a man to death, 
since revenge is not presumed to enter the arena of 
human execution, why would not sentiment be more 
easily served by administering to the victim an 
anaesthetic which would release him from both the 
mental and physical pain of decease? And in the 
slaughter houses where thousands of beeves, lambs 
and other animals are daily put to death for the 
consumption of man, why would it not be humane to 
administer a certain formula of gas that would 
quickly pass from their bodies, leaving them in quite 
proper condition for food? To tie a cow's head to 
a ring bolted in the floor (as I once personally saw 
done in a country slaughter-house) and strike the 
forehead a furious blow with the butt end of an axe 
to reduce the animal to a state of unconsciousness 
that the throat cutting may be more easily performed, 
is horribly cruel to say the least. Other animals 
undergo the ravages of the knife while their flesh 
fairly quivers from the pain and fear they undergo. 
This is demoralizing, when it is understood, and cries 
out in its tortured voice for humane actions on the 
part of human beings. Administer to the helpless, 
suffering, fear-stricken beasts a mild anaesthetic, I 
say, and relieve the poor creatures, who have done us 
no wrong, from the pain of the blow of the axe and 
the gash of the knife. 



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HEAVEN IS WITHIN. 

Theodore Parker. 

When Jesus said, "Suffer little children to come 
unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven," he 
was in his mind drawing that picture of the inno- 
cence of thought, the purity of motive, the chastity 
of purpose, that scintillation of divine goodness of 
which the bright spheres of the spiritual realm are 
made. In being fit to ascend to the superior spheres, 
the heavens of existence, one must aspire to trans- 
cend all sophistry, all vainglorious thought, all selfish 
consideration so prevalent in the days on earth. Of 
this purer, more innocent condition, is heaven made. 
It is the "being born again" and to it the chastity of 
childhood is welcomed, "for of such is the Kingdom 
of Heaven." 

Heaven in its real aspect is not a location to which 
we go, but rather a condition which comes to us. 
"Heaven is within," said the master. To experience 
heaven it is not necessary that we pass on to the 
spirit world or to any place outside of the space we 
occupy at the moment. 

Happiness is heaven, unhappiness is hell. Both 
are within. Hence whatever renders us happiness 
transports heaven to us. If some one or something 
that we much love is in the grove back of the cot- 
tage in the lane we will not establish any great de- 
gree of happiness by spending our summer at the sea- 
shore, or in one of the seven heavens of futurity. 

If the beloved one whose presence is essential to 
our great happiness be in London, for instance, we 



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will not gather any marked joy by going to the heaven 
of the saints away off somewhere in the ether blue. 

Heaven being happiness, it can be attained only 
by the influx of that happiness given out by the in- 
dividual or the thing we desire. Location does not 
cause the happiness. The true lovers find as much 
happiness on the mud-flats of an inland bay, provided 
they are not separated, as on the noted Lakes of Kil- 
larney. They would be as much at peace in the mush- 
room fields of North America as in the supernal 
realms beyond the starry skies. 

Heaven and hell, therefore, being attributes of the 
soul, death of the physical body is not essential to 
experience either state. Keep body and spirit whole- 
some, pure and true, live up to your best views of 
right and you will walk the golden Appian way of 
the New Jerusalem all along the earth spheres and 
the realms beyond the earth. 



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DEATH THE EMANCIPATOR WHO SETS US 

FREE. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 

Water seeks its level. All things have a leaning 
in the direction of the spheres of existence which are 
most congenial to themselves. 

The man in whom the manifestation of the spirit- 
ual predominates migrates to healthful and pure con- 
ditions. He whose spiritual qualities are overridden 
by the material tends toward the squalor and imper- 
fections of life. Undoubtedly so designed in the crea- 
tion principle, all natural tendencies of the human 
soul are upward and onward, the rarified qualities 
of itself being disposed to quicken the impulses of 
the spirit to throw off, move away from, such con- 
tingencies as weigh it down to surrounding foreign 
elements. 

Any condition which checks spiritual progress is 
not desirable. Note the term I use — progress. 

Spirit itself is ever pure and undefiled, but in our 
carelessness of using terms we speak of the develop- 
ment of the spirit. The spirit is always developed, 
but it is not always free, and its progress is arrested 
by the material conditions in which it is often held. 
The tree and the rock, for instance, remain in their 
material state, and the spirit remains in its spiritual 
state. They do not change places with each other. 
The elements of both continue in the line of their 
respective existences. 

So we notice that spirit and matter are eternally 
at war with each other. They are the exemplifica- 



76 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

tion of the first great warfare, the God in heaven 
and the Lucifer cast out. 

Spirit in its desires soars to realms congenial to 
itself, and to which matter cannot go. 

The latter is at rest where it is. Matter is com- 
plete in itself, and so is spirit. 

Each is content in its own sphere of congeniality. 
But spirit in its upward inclination is forever drag- 
ging matter with it, and matter in its satisfied lower 
state is hanging on to the skirts of and holding back 
spirit. The two are not congenial partners, they lead 
a cat-and-dog life, always at war with each other. 
Being good is thinking good. If one thinks purely 
the material and the spiritual conception are brought 
into more peaceful relation. 

Disease, ill sentiments, suffering of the body, are 
incongenial to the spirit, and thus death, as we term 
it, comes as a relief, a release, an emancipation to 
it, and leaves it untrammelled and unfettered. 

When body-tortured, soul-racked and spirit-bur- 
dened, the rustling wing of the white-robed messenger 
of death should be a welcome sound, and usually it is. 

Death is our emancipator and sets us free. 



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LIFE AND THE DRAMA. 

Dion Boucicault. 

It has been my observation since my life in the 
spirit spheres, and during my mortal career, that no 
method of instruction surpasses that of object teach- 
ing. 

When persons are shown, it is what they see, more 
than what they hear when told, that leaves its endur- 
ing impress. 

It has been said, "Experience is the best teacher." 
The kindergartens of the world have done more than 
any other system of instruction to train the infantile 
mind. The cartoonist's pictures have done more to 
impress the public mind than the columns of printed 
writings. 

The atlas has more safely than the readable geog- 
raphy lighted many a boy's mental pathway through 
the difficult passes of the Sierra Nevada mountains, 
and the wilds of the western prairies, and the gardens 
of the equator. Nothing portrays the fire better than 
the smoke. 

All the compliments covering the breadth of the 
earth do not convince a woman of her beauty as 
quickly as does the mirror in her boudoir. 

The theatre stage reveals human character more 
accurately than the combined pulpits of the United 
States of America. 

It is the great object lesson. The legitimate stage 
has ever been the educator of the people, the great 
lessons of the hour are there laid bare. 



78 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

Two thousand years ago when Christianity was 
waiting to be born, glistening in the eastern sky the 
Star of Bethlehem was a greater beacon to soul-stung 
men than all the sermons the elders preached. 

The tablets of stone from Mount Sinai with their 
living letters have guided the world toward better 
things for thousands of years, and the flickering light 
along the shore in the Colleen Bawn has illumined 
the way of many a heart-sick man and woman. 

God bless the theatre ! It is the great kindergarten, 
a picture lesson, a moving panorama, the atlas of the 
world, the great looking-glass of nature, all combined, 
and through them the world learns by object lessons 
the great trend of human experience. 



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THE AGE OF THE SPIRIT. 
Charles F. Berwind. 

To many persons in mortal life it is a matter of 
wonder what age they will be during their sojourn in 
the spirit world, or rather what it will appear to be, 
for it may be said there is no age limit to spirit, it 
having always been and always is to be. 

People pass over at all periods from infantile years 
through middle life to old age. Are there children, 
and youth and the aged in spirit? 

The spirits being without age, are they all of the 
same age there? 

Spirits control their own ages in the spirit world. 
They can assume any age they desire. They usually 
decide their apparent age by some period of earth life 
in which they found the greatest happiness. If they 
experienced on earth their supreme comfort and joy 
at forty years or twenty years or sixty years, then 
they will take on that age in their appearance in 
spirit. That will afford them the most happiness. 

Ages too young to be remembered are not assumed 
in spirit because no memory exists of that early 
period and hence no happiness is recalled. 

But in reappearing on earth, it may have been noted 
that a person who passed over an infant, but who 
at the time of reappearance would by earthly com- 
putation be thirty or forty years of age, will some- 
times present himself as an infant and at other times 
as at his prevailing age reckoned by years. 



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This is done for the purpose of identification. But 
it shows the pliability of the conditions which enable 
him to take on any age he chooses. 

Hence in the spirit world are people of all ages, 
from the young to the advanced years of their mortal 
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MAN NOT THE ARCHITECT BUT THE BUILD- 
ER OF HIS OWN BEING. 

Florence Nightingale. 

Nature is the architect of man, and he himself is 
the builder thereof. He constructs the purpose to 
pursue certain lines along life which become char- 
acter marks. 

Some build wisely, some do not. 

Some remember and profit by the old expressions, 
"Evil communications corrupt good manners," "All 
is not gold that glitters." Nothing goes farther to- 
wards making a man the best piece of workmanship 
than his own. handiwork. And his handiwork upon 
his own character building will be excellent if he 
makes his patterns from the highest ideals of his men- 
tality. (When I say man I am speaking of human 
beings in general, and these include woman.) 

To live a good life, pure and useful, not for a re- 
ward outside of himself, but because it is Right and 
Best, is what builds the ideal person; what accen- 
tuates man's beautiful construction is the motives, 
not the maneuvers in his life; the purpose, not the 
preaching; the precepts, not the performance; the 
intention, not the act. A noble thought incorporated 
in a worthy deed, both builded because of nobleness 
and worthiness, point to a higher heaven and a holier 
God than all the gilded spires in Christendom. Make 
yourself great and good because you want to be so, 



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not because you desire to be paid for it, and you will 
build the noblest structure in the world. 

Nature is the architect of your being, but you are 
its builder. See to it that you hew to the line, use 
good material, deal honestly with yourself and you 
will build both wisely and well. 



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ROCK OF AGES. 

TOPLADY. 

Jesus, pro me perforatus, 
Condar intra tuum latiis. 

Tu per lympham profluentem, 
Tu per sanguinem tepentem, 
In peccata mi redunda, 
Tolle culpam, sordes munda. 

Coram te nee Justus forem, 
Quamvis tota vi laborem, 
Nee si fide nunquam cesso, 
Fletu stillans indefesso; 
Tibi soli tantum munus; 
Salva me, Solvator unus. 

Nil in mann meeum fero, 
Sed me versus crucem gero; 
Vestimenta nudus oro, 
Opem debilis implora; 

Fontem Christi qucero' immundus, 
Nisi laves, moribundus. 

Dum hos artus vita regit; 
Quando nox sepulchro tegit. 
Mortuos cum stare jubes, 
Sedeus Judex inter nubes 
Jesus, pro me perforatus, 
Condar intra tuum latus. 



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THE PRODUCTS OF TO-DAY ARE THE POSSI- 
BILITIES! OF YESTERDAY. 

Omohondro. 
(The Soul Father of the Compiler of This Book.) 

All the luxuries we enjoy, all the freedom we ex- 
perience, all the conveniences we have to-day for the 
first time, were quite as possible yesterday. In the 
use of the terms to-day and yesterday, I mean the 
present and the past. 

Two illustrious men were Presidents of the United 
States at widely separated periods of time. Each was 
the equal of the other in condition of mind, in 
strength of character, each was in his way a construc- 
tive genius. 

Undoubtedly George Washington found as great a 
degree of happiness in life, and desired to live as 
much, as did Abraham Lincoln. Yet attached to 
Washington's time were the hardships of a tedious 
tramp on horseback to the seat of government, and 
Lincoln rode to it on a bed in a railroad sleeping car. 
Could not George Washington and his coteries under 
the government have traveled with the same ease? 

Benjamin Franklin, exposed to the storm, watched 
the electric spark dart to his key on a kite string. 

Thomas A. Edison in the quiet and comfort of home 
through the agency of the electric spark speaks to 
his friends a hundred miles away. 

But the railroad car and the telephone were as pos- 
sible in the time of Washington and Franklin as to- 
day. It was not that these possibilities did not exist, 



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but great mental operations, and others, had failed 
to sense the vibrations of these possibilities and 
harness them. 

Mind is ever the same. One man, because he in- 
vents or discovers something which another man does 
not, is not necessarily of a superior mentality. 

All brains are not attuned to a key which responds 
to the same activity of a possibility. Elias Howe, 
who invented the sewing machine, had no greater 
mind power than the mechanic who built its tread. 
His brain caught the activity of the mechanical 
thought of the inventor just as the inventor's brain 
caught the vibration of the possibility of the inven- 
tion. Thomas Jefferson was no greater writer be- 
cause he could produce a great declaration of prin- 
ciples than was the unknown author of the rhymes, 
jimes and jingles of "Mother Goose." Washington, 
Napoleon and Grant were great military commanders, 
but no greater in mentality than Paine, who as 
Junius wrote the pamphlets that really instigated the 
American Kevolution. Mind is a universal quality 
permeating the brains of men. One and another be- 
come eminent by differing mind waves passing 
through the brain cells. 

A brain will collect certain passing mind waves, 
while others will pass through without leaving any 
impression. For example, place two or three sieves, 
one above another filled with various sized holes. 
Drop into the top sieve a number of jewels of various 
sizes. The small ones pass through openings suitable 
to them, the larger ones are retained in the first or 
second receptacle. A sapphire is caught by the first 
sieve, a ruby by the second and a diamond by the 
bottom one. One may be as valuable as the other. 
The sieves illustrate the equal greatness of men. The 
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great intellectually as the one who made a machine 
add a column of figures, or the one who thought out 
the ponderous engines that move the steamboats on 
the ocean. 

The products of this year are the possibilities of 
yesteryear wrought out in the various and unfathom- 
able channels of men's brains. 



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THE POWER OF THE VIOLIN, 

AND 

THE FORCE OF PORTRAITURE. 

Ole Bull 

and 

Raphael Santi. 

Violin. 

All written and printed history of the violin gives 
the date of its construction and use as the middle 
of the sixteenth century, and as descendent from the 
viol. But as a matter of fact, not known to the 
modern world, it was made and used under some- 
what different comparative dimensions of neck and 
belly in the time of the glory of the ancient Athenians 
and of Jesus of Nazareth. Socrates listened to its 
tones in the temples of the Acropolis, and it was a 
favorite instrument of the disciple James, who played 
it many evenings at the river side when the day's 
fishings were over. Mary Magdalene was an expert 
performer, and danced bewitchingly to the music 
played by herself for the steps. The violin is the 
most remarkable musical instrument, and it could be 
made to imitate the human voice more exactly than 
anything ever invented up to the time of the advent 
of the talking machine. A single violin string con- 
tinuously sounded would crumble the ramparts and 
walls of the strongest fort in the world. A single 
note if continuously sounded in one location for a 
long time would disintegrate and destroy the founda- 
tions and topple over the walls of a city block. It 



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would render steel structures too weak to be safe; 
in time it would lay in ruins the entire elevated rail- 
roads of New York, if the vibration could reach every 
part of it. 

A violin played for years in one building would 
overthrow its masonry and make the iron parts of 
the structure as brittle as clay pipe stems. The dome 
of St. Peters at Rome or the Capitol at Washington 
could be wrecked to the ground by the continuous 
sounding of a single violin string under it. The violin 
is the most powerful instrument ever made. 



Portraiture. 

The limner's art can trace the distant feature, 

And bear you on the wings of thought close to that absent soul, 
Who, catching thus from you the mental picture, 

Tender bonds by cruel absence broken once more makes whole. 

You look upon a picture of a person, and instantly 
you think of the personality. You study my picture 
before you, and you do not think of the light or the 
heavy lines of the pencil on the paper, but rather of 
the man Raphael. You at once associate yourself 
with past or present incidents connected with the 
life of the person whose picture you see, and you thus 
become a part of the life and the time of the life of 
the same. But that is not all. It is a conceded fact 
that you cannot earnestly concentrate your thoughts 
upon an absent one without, either consciously or 
unconsciously to that one, projecting your individ- 
uality, your own influence and spiritual presence. 
Thoughts are things, is a common saying. By them 
you are carried into relationship with the person you 
send the thoughts to; you are placed in a mental 
association with incidents of that person's life, past 
or present, or both. So a portrait is a forceful bond 
between two parted individuals. The distances of 




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time and space are bridged by the pencil of the artist, 
and we clasp soul hands with the absentee. In this 
bond we live over again the joys of the past, or antici- 
pate the happinesses yet undeveloped. Through the 
subtle powers of the portrait we can buoy up and 
gladden the downcast spirit of the one across the sea, 
and revel in the sunshine of life with those beyond 
the stars. 




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SLEEP. 
Louisa May Alcott. 

Sleep! Every night in our slumber we are born 
again, made over, molded anew. 

Not only do we live a new life, but we pass again 
through much of the old. 

To-night the prisoner serving a life sentence will be 
a free man, out in the sunlight and the fresh air of 
God's world. Will the brief respite help him to bear 
exile better? Suppose he were to be actually freed for 
a day, then reincarcerated, would he feel better or 
worse? Does his dream life make easier his waking 
hours? In slumber to-night the father and mother or 
sister and brother you laid to rest in the grave long 
ago will be in sweet converse with you in the various 
details of the home life. You will sit at the breakfast 
table with mother, chatting over the cup of coffee as 
you did twenty years ago. You will look out the win- 
dow of the old country kitchen that was torn down 
when you were in your teens and see father swinging 
the same old dull axe to swell the winter wood-pile. 
In the "wee sma' hours" of the morning you will 
"trip the light fantastic toe" across waxen floors long 
gone to ruin, and in the gray morning twilight of 
your silent sleep you will escort home in Mother 
Shipton's horseless carriage the coquetting sweet- 
heart who refused you in marriage fifty years before. 
To-night you will go on a moonlight excursion 
through the beauties of the Nile or the Hudson, and 
feast with dainty products the appetites of the little 



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son and daughter upon whose graves on the hillside 
of the cemetery you to-day noticed the wild flowers 
blooming. To-night you will sail blue seas you have 
longed to cross, you will be dressed in purple robes 
instead of the simple garment you hung in the ward- 
robe when you retired to rest. You will shine in 
rubies and sapphires you never saw. Soon after you 
have said, "Now I lay me down to sleep," you will 
clasp hands with the President of the United States 
in the White House and King George in Buckingham 
Palace; you will listen to the rumble of Mount Ve- 
suvius, and see the lava flow over Herculaneum and 
Pompeii, or on the wings of the winds you will listen 
to the music of the spheres in the eternal mists of 
the distant Pleiades. 

Sleep, sweet calm sleep! Nature's vast storehouse 
of blessings ! Upon thy peaceful shrine we lay a 
tribute of our gratefulness. Not alone do you rest 
the weary body and revitalize the energies of the 
exhausted brain, giving a new flow of life, but of thee 
it is true that through the mysterious maneuvers 
of your phantom powers the wasted fortune is re- 
covered, the lost prize is restored, the shortcoming is 
forgiven, the harsh word is softened, the sorrow be- 
comes joy, the new garment is worn, the jewel adorns, 
the suffering ends, the new land is visited, the dead 
again live. 



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THE COMPOSITE PICTURE. 
Martha Jefferson Randolph. 

Have you seen a composite picture, a group of faces 
blended in one, presenting a face made up of many? 

In that one expression are the looks of many. Have 
you looked into a garden full of varied flowers, and 
beheld in their blending one striking concentration 
of beauty? Could you look upon a man's brain, or 
a woman's brain, you would see a composite picture 
of the various impressions made upon it by the daily 
passing scenes and events. 

What would you think if I should tell you that you 
not only can have a look upon the composite picture 
of one man's brain impressions, but upon the com- 
posite picture of the impressions of many men and 
women's brains. This at a moment's thought may seem 
an impossible privilege, but it is quite possible and 
easy. Glance into an engine room, look at the plunging 
pistons, the moving shafts, the turning wheels, the 
running belts. What is it you see? A composite pic- 
ture of the many pictures that were impressed upon 
men's and women's brains, for in the complicated 
mechanism before you are the pictures which cast 
themselves upon the brains of many persons. One 
man had a picture of the piston, another made an im- 
provement, another was impressed with the balance 
wheel, and so on. Whenever you look upon a car- 
brake, or a butter-churn, an electric motor, etc., you 
are looking into the brains of many people, for the 
pictures of all these rested on the brains before they 



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became the moving pictures of realities which you 
behold. When you look upon the sewing machine 
you* see the brain of Howe together with many others 
whose improvements in the mechanism are reflected 
there. In the steamboat you are looking into the 
brain of Fulton. In the steam engine you see the 
brain of Watt. In the electric light is illumined the 
brain of Edison. In the clicking telegraph you see 
the brain of Morse. In the lightning-rod is the brain 
of Franklin. In the cloth-shielded shirtband button- 
hole the brain of Dr. Mary Walker. 



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THE WALLS HAVE EARS. 

Joseph Rodes Buchanan. 

Every moving thing on the earth makes, I will say 
for simplicity of terms, air waves. These are what 
you more familiarly call sounds. You ordinarily in 
conversation say you hear the thunder, you hear the 
flap of the bird's wing, you hear the voice of your 
friend. What really takes place is the action of the 
air waves upon the sensitive brain through the mech- 
anism of the ear. There is no sound where there is 
no ear or other avenues to convey the air waves or 
vibrations to the brain. 

If there were no living conscious beings on the 
earth, there would not be any sound to even the 
loudest clap of thunder, nor would there be any sight 
of the flash of lightning. Sight and sound belong 
only to brain centres communicated with by the eye 
and ear mechanism. 

The moment the brain is oblivious to its surround- 
ings, sight and sound do not exist in the realm of 
physical life. 

When a brain is placed profoundly under the in- 
fluence of an anaesthetic, the eye does not see and 
the ear does not hear. 

Now, all sound waves leave their indelible im- 
press upon all their surroundings. 

When you sit in a room and speak, every word you 
utter, every movement you make, establishes a wave 
radiation which spreads and fills every part of the 
room, and these are registered on everything in the 



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room, on the chairs, on the tables, on the walls, every- 
where, thousands of repetitions of the same message, 
just as the wax roller receives the sound waves 
through the phonograph. 

There will come a day when these impressions may 
be repeated back from the walls and reproduced just 
as given in. Once started back, they necessarily re- 
create the sound waves as originally created. Then 
will be verified the familiar saying, "The very walls 
themselves have ears." Until these waves act upon 
the ear there will be no sound from the impressions. 
There is no sound in the phonograph. Only when the 
air vibrations start will you secure what you call a 
sound. 



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WHY WE LIKE TO TRAVEL FAST. 

Socrates. 

A child riding with its father on a railroad train 
asked: "Papa, why is it I feel so good when the 
train goes fast?" 

"Because/ 7 answered the father, "rapid traveling 
exhilarates." 

This reply was about as obtuse to the child as it 
would be to the whole traveling public. We all are 
aware that it exhilarates, but we might ask why does 
it exhilarate? 

If we sit on a veranda in the refreshing breeze of 
a summer day, we are exhilarated. A glass of wine 
exhilarates. Anything that lifts us above the more 
sordid conditions of earth has a tendency to exhil- 
arate us. 

The eternal law of life is progress, evolution from 
lower to higher conditions of being. The natural 
trend, the aspiration of the soul, is toward a more 
ethereal state. We want to throw off the grosser 
states, leave them behind us. 

Inactivity is weight, heaviness, material. Activity 
inspires to the aesthetic. 

The trend of the spirit is toward the spiritual, and 
when we travel fast we are in spirit lifted above the 
material. 

We say above, but, as there is neither above nor 
below in space, it is simply the removing from the 
material earth, the inclination to overstep the law 
of gravity. Though the body weighs as much on a 



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fast-moving train as on one moving slowly, the spirit 
feels more free as the former is more released from 
the natural attraction which the earth has to physical 
surroundings, and its thought-flight is accelerated. 

Anything that hastens us through the air gives the 
spirit a sense of temporary emancipation from the 
material environments of its ponderous encompass- 
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REINCARNATION. 
LUCRETIA MOTT. 

I am a through-and-through reincarnationist. Wliat 
surprises me is that any one can in his or her sane 
moments doubt it. Everything that we see about is 
a reincarnation of an earlier substance, thought or 
spirit existence. 

The purpose of reincarnation is attainment of per- 
fection. When the spirit or the thought becomes pure 
and perfect, reincarnations cease. When a boy sits 
and studies a difficult example in arithmetic, then 
lays it aside, and goes at it again the next day, and 
the next day and so on until he masters the problem, 
that is nothing more nor less than a succession of 
reincarnations of his thought, expressing itself, de- 
veloping itself through the various phases of his 
brain. When the thought has mastered the problem 
there is nothing more to be obtained in that case, 
and it ceases to act on that line. It is developed. 

When the oak attains its age and drops off its 
acorns or other propagating principles, new trees rise 
in their places. It is the seed of the former tree seek- 
ing a complete unfoldment, and it reaches it in that 
way, and the material tree reaches perfection at the 
same time. 

Just as long as the tree is irregular and awkward 
in formation it will propagate itself. But when the 
propagating seed has reappeared through a succession 
of material bodies till it becomes in every way per- 
fect, that tree in which it so expressed itself will not 



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again appear. Its perfected life principle will not 
again come forth in the material form. It has per- 
fected itself by its regeneration. It is so with the 
flower, the shrub, the blade of grass. 

All of man's cultivation of a tree cannot make it 
symmetrical and perfect in form. He can lead it in 
that way, that is all. Its perfection can be brought 
about only by the successive embodiments of the tree 
principle. 

The American Beauty rose was the result of gen- 
erations of the ordinary rose rising to its supreme 
state through cultivation. 

And so it is with mankind. The man's soul, his 
spirit, his thought, his desire, his inclination, are ham- 
pered by the narrowness of the undeveloped func- 
tions. Spirit and body improve, develop, rise to- 
gether. The spirit develops its perfection through 
the experiences in the body. 

No restaurant keeper is so successful as the one 
who began by washing dishes in the kitchen and going 
to the market on errands; no shoe-dealer is better 
developed for the business than the man who in 
earlier years sat on the cobbler's bench ; the man best 
equipped to take charge of a great engineering un- 
dertaking is the one who at some time rose from 
the trenches and overalls. 

A perfect life principle cannot enter an imperfect 
form. When the spirit has attained growth and per- 
fection, it can no more inhabit the inferior tenement 
of clay. 

Its mission is then beyond. Until this be so, the 
human spirit seeks renewals of its perfecting experi- 
ences through a number of embodiments. Advance- 
ment is as impossible without reincarnation as peace 
of mind is over a wrong you have done without re- 
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If you kick a dog in the street and have not fine- 
ness of nature following this act sufficient to regret 
it, you remain undeveloped and will be ready to kick 
more dogs, and a woman or child whom you should 
love and shield. 

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THE GREAT BED CROSS. 
Eugenie of France. 

The events of the world impressed through the 
parents upon the offspring in its prenatal conditions 
often leave their mark upon the after life of the 
child. Miss Susan R. Anthony, the famous American 
advocate of woman suffrage, refers to this fact in 
her admirable article within these covers. Even be- 
fore the nineteenth century had donned short dresses, 
when it was in the cooing days of the flower of its 
babyhood, there was born in the historic Tuscan city 
a child destined to link together in the gratefulness 
of memory the amelioration of human sufferings of 
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. One of God's 
real angels, this good Samaritan lived an earth life 
of nearly one hundred years, blessing the earth with 
her presence and power through nearly the entire 
nineteenth century — the few baby years of its period 
being deducted, as it were, to afford her that length- 
ened breath of life for an introduction of her great 
personality to the new-born years of the twentieth 
century. I refer to Florence Nightingale. Taking 
up her earthly career with her parent's impressions 
a part of her being, who can say what was the in- 
fluence upon her life of the stirring events which had 
but so recently rocked with seismic force not only 
France and England, but the far-off colonies of fair 
America? 

The French Revolution and the destruction of the 
Rastille had stirred to activity the spirit of freedom 



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in France, and the American colonies had been racked 
and tortured in their long siege against England's 
supremacy. Suffering and privation had left their 
deadly sting upon all sections, and the need of amelio- 
ration of these direful conditions set the world to 
thinking, and the unborn were marked with this 
spirit of sympathy and tenderness. Fresh from the 
fruitful states of affairs for good rose Florence Night- 
ingale, a white-winged guardian angel, over the car- 
nage and suffering and strife and death in the 
trenches of battle. Now I come to the story I would 
tell. So gracious and beneficent were the ministra- 
tions of the noble woman in the great Crimean strug- 
gle of the middle nineteenth century that Queen Vic- 
toria of England, in a simple, unostentatious act, es- 
tablished the sign of the great Eed Cross that has 
marked and is destined to mark in generations yet 
to come, the beneficent society and work so nobly and 
lately served by the immortal Clara Barton. Calling 
Florence Nightingale to Balmoral, the Queen pre- 
sented to her as a token of English appreciation, a 
beautiful ruby red enamel cross on a white back- 
ground, telling the recipient to let that be the emblem 
of the immaculate spirit of self-sacrifice and splendid 
work done for suffering soldiers on blood-stained 
fields of battle. Miss Nightingale told the Queen and 
myself in England that she should lay plans to found 
an organization to be called the Red Cross Society, 
whose work for good should not be confined to any 
territory or any people, but as wide as the world and 
as general as was suffering. 

And thus did Victoria of England and Florence of 
sunny Italy give to the world and the organization 
its strange emblem of the Bed Cross. 




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IS INSPIRATION INSANITY? 

Dean Swift. 

At this time when discussion relating to my mental 
poise in mortal life runs high through the public 
press and elsewhere, it seems meet and proper that 
I should enter the arena of debate with those who 
assail my name and fame. 

It is an easy but not at all times a wise accom- 
plishment to introduce claims of insanity or imbe- 
cility into a man's life one, two or three hundred 
years after his demise. But, praise God, it is possible 
in this era of the world for the assailed to rise, phoe- 
nix-like, from the ashes of the tomb and defend him- 
self. 

I was a spiritual medium capable of being acted 
upon, influenced by, discarnate spirits. The spirits 
guided me to produce many of my writings, and, be- 
ing a candidate for the office of the legitimate accu- 
mulation of means for a livelihood, I put all my pro- 
ductions out to the public. 

What is inspiration? It is a quality from without 
which impresses the consciousness within. Because I 
was susceptible to this influence the modern medical 
world is questioning my sanity. 

James Watt was sane enough in the estimation of 
the people when as a civil engineer he measured the 
fields in feet and inches, for they could comprehend 
that, but when associated with the invention of steam 
engines which they did not understand, he had gone 
crazy. Newton, like Watt, sitting before the fire stu- 



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diously observing the power of steam on the lid of a 
kettle of boiling water, was swatted on the side of the 
head and pushed aside by the housemaid in a manner 
befitting the fly-swatting operations of to-day, because 
he was "an indolent, lazy boy,' 7 but when the achieve- 
ments of that studious brain spanned in company 
with Halley the spaces from earth to the Pleiades and 
startled the civilized world by its scrutiny and power, 
he was no longer an "indolent, lazy boy" sitting be- 
fore the fireside embers. Consider Humphry Davy, 
the lunatic, peering into the dangerous dark coal 
caverns watching for the deadly explosions following 
torch lighting, and then contemplate the sane Sir 
Humphry Davy with his invented safety lamp that 
has minimized the dangers of death to everv miner 
who has lived since his day. Look at the asylums 
yearning for Haeckel, Gutenberg, Columbus, Moses, 
Pythagoras, Dante, Galileo, Charlemagne, Constan- 
tine, Voltaire, Cadmus, Gustavus, Adolphus and 
Helmholtz, the father of the later achievements of 
Carty, Marconi, Edison and our own Franklin. 

In your day Samuel F. B. Morse walked the streets 
of Washington City, his sanity tabooed by the execra- 
tions of those who could not grasp his wondrous in- 
spiration. Later the lightnings of the skies testified 
to his saneness through the electric wires that belted, 
like Saturn's rings, the earthly globe. 

Elias Howe was one of these madmen, but his mad- 
ness had method, for it made it possible to clothe half 
a million warriors in the war of the rebellion who 
must otherwise have gone unclothed. Harriet Beecher 
Stowe was called by the publisher who refused to 
print the manuscript of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a 
fanatic and a libeller of the South, a robber of the 
black man's liberties. Poor, simple-minded woman 
found to be so strong that by a dip of her pen she 



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inspired Abraham Lincoln to wrest the shackles from 
four million slaves, and enabled the "Sunny South'' 
to at last see the real sunshine of progress and jus- 
tice. 

Edgar Allen Poe went to the grave "weak-minded/ 7 
but all the world to-day is stirred by the inspiration, 
the pathos and strength which could write — 

"Tell this soul with sorrow laden 
If within the distant aiden 
It shall clasp a sainted maiden 

Whom the angels name Lenore — 
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden 

Whom the angels name Lenore." 

Was Dante crazy? Was Daniel Defoe irrational? 
Were the authors of Aesop's Fables and the Arabian 
Nights mad? And was the writer of Gulliver's Trav- 
els fit for the asylum? Has the author of "Letters 
from Julia," and the author of "Journal to Stella," 
clasped hands in the madmen's spiritual dungeon, or 
does Poe's Kaven sit over the threshold of hell and 
chant "Nevermore?" 

"Thus saith the Lord," wrote the Holy Bible. "Thus 
saith the Lord," wrote the Ten Commandments on 
Mount Sinai. "Thus saith the Spirit," wrote the 
Harmonial philosophy in the 1840's. Can one mind 
influence another? When, by the science of Mesmer, 
an operator makes a bootblack from the street quote 
the lines of Homer's Iliad, is the bootblack crazy? 
When Moses produced, in accordance with words 
spiritually given him, the greatest lesson the world 
has had, was he insane? Was Dean Swift a lunatic 
when a spirit inspired the "Drapier Letters?" When 
a patient is under the influence of an anaesthetic, and 
lies still through the gash of the knife, is he an im- 
becile? 

Were I able to summon a genii, I would ask him to 
erect on my grave a memorial tablet bearing as an 



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epitaph these immortal words of the immortal Addi- 
son applied in his mundane life to me : 

"Dr. Jonathan Swift was the most agreeable com- 
panion, the truest friend, and the greatest genius of 
his age." 




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THINGS NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM. 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 

Precepts have different effect upon us according to 
the particular avenues through which they reach us. 
For instance the value of a contribution does not 
always set its worth. A poor man may have eaten 
most of the meat from a bone for his frugal repast, 
and have but little left for the morrow's meal. A 
wealthy man may be counting the gold that has ac- 
cumulated in the vaults of his treasury. The poor 
man tosses his bone to a starving dog that is shivering 
at his feet, and the rich man counts out a thousand 
crisp banknotes and hands them to his niece on her 
birthday anniversary. 

The poor man's gift was the greater one to both 
giver and recipient, for he gave away the only sem- 
blance to his next day's dinner to a starving beast, 
while the rich man gives out an amount insignificant 
to his possessions. The niece receives it without an 
emotion of real thanksgiving. It was the need that 
created the value. In this case a ham bone was of 
more value than a thousand dollars. 

A bad man reveling in ribaldry and wickedness 
may tell you it is better to follow a proper, becoming 
system of conduct, and a clergyman or other sincere 
teacher may likewise direct you. The advice is the 
same in both instances, and may be equally sincere, 
but the latter will impress you the more because in 



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that you have confidence, while in the case of the 
man of ill life an element of distrust arises. You 
ask, if the pure life is the better, why does he not 
follow it? 

People receive things and thoughts differently, 
owing to the differing degrees of brain cell sensitive- 
ness. To a man with no appetite, a disregard for 
dumb animals and a greed for wealth, there is no 
charity in the gift of the bone, but the donation of 
money occurs to him as a generous act. 

There is an old saying, "One man's meat is another 
man's poison." 

Worldly Tom Jackson wanted it to rain yesterday 
to increase the value of his farm crops, but his reli- 
gious daughter Sally prayed for sunshine on the 
occasion of her Sunday school picnic the same day. 
When the sun rose over the eastern horizon in glory, 
Sally blessed God, and her father spoke in the French 
language. In the afternoon when a storm came down 
Tom praised the devil and Sally wept with the elders 
and deacons. 

Three women in different houses, each expecting in 
her own conceit to be serenaded by one and the same 
man, sat looking out of their respective windows at 
a light signal by the railroad track. Toward the 
first a green glass intervened, toward the second a 
red screen intervened, the third saw it in its natural 
glow. As the serenader did not appear they got to- 
gether and pulled the hairs of each other's heads out 
in a warm discussion over the light. One said it was 
red, another maintained it was green, and the third 
declared it was neither, but a plain light. 

Yet all three women were looking at the same light. 
Conditions had made the emanating rays reach each 



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spectator's brain cells differently. The act, the ob- 
ject, the subject was the same, but the conditions of 
observation were different. 

Things are not always what they seem. It is the 
manner, the condition, the circumstance of receiving, 
not of giving, which affects each individual conscious- 
ness unalike. 





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REFLECTIONS IN A CEMETERY. 
Mary Washington. 

How thoughtless many of us are of the value of 
every living thing other than our own kind and often 
of our own. 

One day I wearily sat upon the border line of a 
beautiful cemetery. The summer sun shot forth re- 
flected rays from the alabaster shafts that marked the 
places of the entombed. The listless winds that lazily 
drifted from the Southland were lulled to sleep in 
keeping with this silent city of the dead. 

A picture of sacred beauty rose to my view. There 
sleeping in the silence of the grave reposed the bodies 
of those who had walked and talked on earth as I had, 
their mortal life forever ended. A single bird flew 
across from a neighboring tree and rested on a bough 
above a mound. That bird, quickened with the pulse 
of mortal life, was the greatest thing, because the 
only living thing within the gates of that sacred pre- 
cinct. 

There lay many a brain and heart and sinew once 
as strong and great as those of a Nero, or a Robes- 
pierre, or a King Henry the Eighth, or a Louis the 
Fourteenth, or a Franklin or a Napoleon. All silent 
dead at end. And there was the bird with its summer 
lay, now greater than all these, for in it pulsated the 
life that no longer quickened the physical bodies 
buried below. The crack of a shot, from the gun of 
a hunter near whizzed by, tore off the plumage of 
the bird, and it fell a corpse too in this city of the 



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dead. It had enjoyed life, suffered death just as all 
the entombed men and women had. Now all lay 
equal upon the common bier of nature. 

Then came a vision of the resurrection. An arch- 
angel stood in the midst of all, bearing the great scale 
of Justice. 

On one balance he laid the corpse of the hunter, 
and, picking up the body of the bird he had killed, 
laid it on the other balance. In the sight of the Eter- 
nal God, they weighed alike. 

Both man and bird had lived, enjoyed the happi- 
ness and felt the bitterness of life, and had gone to 
the cemetery, both the creation of the same master- 
mind. 

Truly may it be remembered there is not a hair of 
the head that is not numbered, and not even a spar- 
row falls to the ground unnoticed. 



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NO MATTER— ALL SPIRIT. 
Henry Kiddle. 

No two parts of any one thing, or any of the parts 
of all things, touch one another. 

Could you see the little particles, you would see 
minute round balls in revolving motions just like the 
worlds of the universe in their revolutions, revolving 
separately and distinctly each by itself. 

When you press your thumb and finger together 
you commonly suppose they are in contact, but they 
are not. When you clasp the hand of an acquaint- 
ance in greeting, or the hand of the maiden you love, 
you do not touch either. It is the magnetic aura 
springing across the chasm between you that you 
sense. This seeming contact in one instance creates 
little emotion, while in the other an ecstasy is estab- 
lished. It is not a touch but the magnetism you per- 
ceive. You walk down the street carrying a wooden 
cane. Your hand never touches the cane, nor do the 
revolving globes that constitute the cane ever come 
in contact. 

The cane is at one stage of perception a succession 
of little disconnected globes. Now could you look 
more keenly upon these globes you would see these 
subdivided into other globes, all of these smaller ones 
forming those first referred to. These in turn are 
subdivided and subdivided ad infinitum until only 
pores are left, and pores are the spaces between what 
to a less keen view seem to be small particles. 

The result shows that could you view the chair on 



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which you now sit, and the body in which you now 
live in sufficiently quickened wave motions or vibra- 
tions, you would fail to discern either material chair 
or a material body. They become by the multiplica- 
tion of pores dividing and subdividing them reduced 
to nothing, and all matter is lost. In their places 
you perceive a spirit chair and a spirit body. 

Observe a piece of lace. Magnify the ligaments, 
and then what to the unaided eye seemed to be solid 
connections are again porous. Again and again ob- 
serve under stronger and still stronger microscopes 
the remaining successive ligaments, and finally these 
are wholly annihilated. Only one great hole, a void, 
is there, nothing of matter, a mere spirit lace. 

There is no actual material in existence. All mat- 
ter is spirit, and spirit is all there is. Can you think 
of it? It is true. 



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THE LAW OF GRAVITY SUSPENDED IN 
FUTURE TRANSPORTATION. 

Sir Isaac Newton. 

Everything but the mind and the spirit is governed 
by the fixed law of gravitation. All material bodies 
allied to earth gravitate to it. But the spirit and the 
mentality of mankind may go above, without, beyond, 
away from this natural gravity. And anything the 
mind or spirit can control, it can convey beyond the 
environs of this great law of the material universe. 

Your body is sitting on a chair. Remove mind and 
spirit, and the body will remain there, of itself im- 
movable as long as it endures as a form. When it 
rises from the chair and goes across the floor to an- 
other room, it is propelled by an unseen power which 
you call mind or spirit. The body could not move 
itself. 

We see it move in the two dimensions of space 
without external appliance, but how shall it move in 
the third? Consider the three dimensions in space — 
length, breadth, height. In a plate of glass cut two 
grooves at right angles crossing each other just deep 
and wide enough for a pea to roll. 

Place close on top another plate of glass and you 
have the pea confined to the grooves. It can move 
the length and breadth of the glass, but no higher. 
Similarly are you held to the surface of the earth 
by gravity. You can move over the earth, but not 
aboye it. Remove the upper glass and the pea has 
the freedom of all dimensions just as your body has 



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when the law of gravity is suspended by the bound- 
less spirit, the measureless mind. 

The law of gravity cannot be entirely thwarted by 
material objects because they cannot ever get away 
from the earth to any great distance, and never at all 
only by the use of material mechanical appliances. 
But how shall the mortal body be moved in a manner 
seemingly in opposition to the understood law of 
gravity? This may be done and shall be done by ap- 
plication of mind to the physical form. If by mental 
processes you can move your body, through action of 
the muscles and feet and limbs, thus carrying it along 
the surface of the earth, it but requires another ap- 
plication of the mind to move the body in the third 
dimension of space, in which event it is levitated 
above the obstructing points on the earth's surface. 
When a once noted medium was levitated above the 
material objects in his room, and carried to the 
heights of his house in the air, it was by the power 
of the minds of spirits external to his own. His own, 
had he known how to exercise it, would have accom- 
plished the same result. By the power of mind you 
may levitate and propel your physical body above the 
trees and buildings to any point in your thought just 
as readily as it now moves it along upon the earth's 
surface. 

This will be the future mode of transportation. 
Stage coaches, steam railroads, electric conveyances 
and airships will become mere memories of the past. 
You will go from one place to another quickly and 
safely with no power except that of the mind. 

Accidents will not then occur, there will be no 
railroad trains to leave their tracks, no steamboats to 
sink, no electric carriages to "skid," and no airships 
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Traveling will be free from danger, expedient and 
delightful. To think yourself at your destination will 
put you there. It will annihilate space in traveling 
as the telephone does in talking. 

Indeed, the law of gravity as now affecting mortal 
beings will be suspended under the boundless freedom 
and influence of thought and the spirit. 

All mechanical means of transportation will be 
done away with. It is known that the bird flies not 
with its wings, but with its mind. And so does the 
child walk. In their tender years the bird walks and 
the child creeps. When the mind acts, the confidence 
comes to the bird and to the child, and the one soars 
in the air and the other stands upright on its feet. 

Everything of which the human brain is capable 
of thinking is possible of accomplishment, all the 
known theories of mechanics, physics, philosophy and 
their advocated concomitants to the contrary notwith- 
standing. 




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THOUGHT FORMS AND MATERIAL FORMS. 

Margaret Fuller 
(Marchioness D'Ossoli.) 

The one important fact to be borne in mind in com- 
paring the material-gathering powers of spirits dis- 
embodied and those embodied is that with the former 
the same work is accomplished instantaneously that 
the latter do through long, slow processes of poorly 
understood physical laws. 

Nothing is created. Material bodies are the aggre- 
gation of elements already in existence, molded into 
the various forms which you behold. The constitu- 
ents of a piece of woollen cloth are primarily in the 
atmosphere. A spirit gathers these constituents in- 
stantly by thought power, while the snail-like pro- 
cesses of land-fertilizing, cotton-growing, sheep-rais- 
ing, weaving and the many other stages through 
which these constituents pass must be gone through 
with by the mortal who would have the raiment. 

A piece of muslin produced by these evolutions was 
in the mind before the land was selected or the seed 
planted, and the component parts of it were in ex- 
istence in the atmosphere. 

When a spirit clads itself in a garment, the gar- 
ment had existed in thought, and the thought instan- 
taneously took on form. 

In considering the body itself, it must be borne in 
mind always that the body is not the individual, but 
the product of the individual; the indwelling spirit 
is the actual person. 



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For nature to produce a mortal human body is a 
slow and intricate process, yet in this case it is gath- 
ered from the atmosphere. 

"From dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return," 
and dust ultimately goes to the air. Yet a spirit can 
transcend these slower physical laws by the law of 
mental concentration, and form from the surrounding 
elements a physical body. 

This was exemplified in the appearance of the body 
of Jesus, and its sudden disappearance in the room 
in the vicinity of the sepulchre. 

Everything that man forms existed first in thought. 
The thought is the real thing, the material formation 
of it is a transitory substitute, a copy, unenduring, 
fading, perishing. Hence to the spirit which is the 
real, the spirit or thought creation is the real. 

The thought is as actual to the spirit senses as the 
thing is to the mortal senses. Truly it is said, 
"Thoughts are things." 

In the years of mortal life most enjoyed by M. Au- 
ber, Sir Isaac Newton or Georges Sand, the style of 
mortal raiment worn by them is indelibly impressed 
upon their mentality. In sitting here for Raphael to 
draw a picture, the thought processes at once con- 
struct the form of dress worn at that period of mortal 
life. 

These are thought creations, elements molded in- 
stantaneously into the form thought of. Hence you 
have a likeness drawn by Raphael and Roulania in 
clothing worn by them at the period of earth life the 
picture represents. 

Spirit existence is a thought existence, but no more 
nor no less so than mortal life, for both are making 
into material forms copies of their mental creations. 



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VISIONS" OF THE FUTURE. 

Leon Tolstoy. 

As has come to be widely known through the chan- 
nels of the public press, I passed into a state of spir- 
itualistic entrancement late in the year 1910, and de- 
livered a remarkable message from one on the spirit 
side of life to be transmitted by the Countess Nas- 
tasia Tolstoy to the Czar of Russia, and by him to 
the German Kaiser and the King of England. This 
message was anonymous at the time, but I have come 
here now to supplement it with the name of the au- 
thor and additional prophecies. 

At the time of my entrancement I did not attribute 
my insensibility to outward things to the operation 
of discarnate spirits, nor did I undertake to explain 
it by any of the claims of modern spiritualistic phe- 
nomena. I simply did not know. I merely was aware 
that I could pass into that trance and that I could 
give forth messages of which I had no knowledge. 
Since my own entrance to spirit life, the phenomena 
have become perfectly intelligible to me as communi- 
cations between the two worlds of life, the physical 
and the spiritual. 

The spirit who gave the remarkable prophecy cov- 
ering a period of events from the present time to the 
middle of the twentieth century was Archbishop John 
Hughes. In this vision were depicted the continued 
ravages of warfare despite the much-boasted golden 
peace arbitration tribunals, the reign of bigotry and 
hypocrisy, falsity and fanaticism, the dangers of un- 



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authentic traditions piercing with deadly fangs all 
persons from the family rocking the cradles, out to 
the art, literature and statesmanship of the world, 
the lowering of moral standards, the destruction of 
family relations and the degeneracy of the institu- 
tions of religion, art and science. Then came the pic- 
ture of following events in the rising scale of human 
existence. The nature grown wiser, vulgar art — so 
to term it — polygamy and monogamy fading away 
in the light of poetogamy embracing the poetic con- 
ceptions of life, and the obliteration of kingdoms, em- 
pires and dynasties in the bright light of a great con- 
federation of the countries of the world. 

Now I have further vision. A universal language, 
the rise of pantheism, and the law of ethics,, the aes- 
thetic consideration of woman, the passing of armed 
bodies. 

As the world in its evolutionary processes comes to 
a realization of the brevity of mortal life, of the 
merely kindergarten aspect of earthly existence, and 
that the fountains of life shall flow on eternally be- 
yond this mortal panorama, murder, sensualism and 
antagonism will depart. The nations will not be look- 
ing for what shall pull down, but for what shall build 
up the beauties and blessings of existence both now 
and forevermore. The right cheek shall not be turned 
also for the second smite, for there will not be the 
first one administered to the left cheek. Kegrets will 
not be experienced, for wrongs will not be committed 
nor sorrows abide. 

The carnage of warfare cannot be stayed, and the 
right and wrong of political questions cannot be arbi- 
trated. A set of men in The Hague who in their 
heated discussion of peace methods wrangle and dis- 
pute among themselves in their very deliberations 
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estranged beyond reach of the civilized modes of 
peace. The people must evolve to a self -conception of 
right. When men shall note that this earth career 
is merely a passing day in the eternal journey of life, 
when the people shall recognize the uselessness of 
active war, the futility of personal conflict, the tem- 
porary advantage of ill-gotten gain, then will inter- 
national arbitration and peace congresses be brushed 
off the map of human experience. 

Not the sixteen crucified saviors of the world, but 
Evolution, is what will save the generations gone and 
the generations yet to be rocked in the cradles of 
earthly experiences. 



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HABMONY AND PERFECTION. 

Georges Sand. 
(Amantine Lucille Aurore Dudevant.) 

There is a land where every pulse is thrilling 

With raptures which earth's children may not know, 

Where sweet repose the storm-toss'd heart is stilling, 
And harmonies celestial ever flow. 

By the master law of natural growth the ultimate 
of all inharmony must be harmony; all discord, ac- 
cord; all unrest, rest; all disunion, unity; all imper- 
fection, perfection. 

This state must come about ere that universal per- 
fectness which is designed to be can be. 

"Many men of many minds" is an oft-heard saying, 
but as long as there are many minds with differences 
of opinion, there is demonstrated an uncertainty of 
position bearing on facts. 

A fact is a fact in all ages and places, yet facts 
do not always appeal or appear to every observer the 
same. Men and women view things differently, and 
what seems a fact to one seems a fallacy to another. 
This establishes inharmony of thought. 

It may not be an aggressive inharmony, it is true, 
but it nevertheless establishes the principle of inhar- 
mony. So long as there are inharmonies of thought 
there is a lack of perfectness or oneness of thought, 
for perfection is attainable only through harmony. 
And so long as the imperfection of harmony endures 
the great goal of the human soul is not reached, yet 
it is ever reaching for that goal of self-perfection all 
along the eons of time, and in the ultimate will attain 



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it. The confusing of tongues at the building of the 
Tower of Babel prevented the consummation that was 
in view, though there is no record of mutiny or un- 
friendly relations among the workers. Yet there was 
a principle of inharmonious thought through the in- 
harmonies of their operations which defeated their 
aim. 

The principle of inharmony ever leads to destruc- 
tiveness, while its antithetic condition leads to con- 
structiveness, completeness, perfectness. 

The ideal of perfection which Jesus and his dis- 
ciples aspired to in their work was shattered by the 
lack of harmonious conditions involved in the weak- 
nesses of Peter and Judas. 

Through spasmodic seasons of agreement empires 
rise, but through conflicts of opinion they fall. The 
government of any country cannot attain to perfec- 
tion and the resources of all that is desirable focalize 
while divisions of opinions perpetuate the inhar- 
monies of principle. When all people see a thing 
alike, not only are the people in harmony but also the 
perfection of the things seen is established. 

But you ask, has there ever been an example of all 
people seeing a thing alike? Yes, just one, and when 
the world in its successive generations looks with one 
eye and with one mind upon the same thing, the mil- 
lennium of perfection will be within grasp. 

Here is the one example: Every living person 
agrees in sentiment upon the fact of a beautiful day 
of delightful weather. Nature produces in the spring- 
time or the autumn a magnificently beautiful day. 
Even though the farmer may want rain and the gar- 
dener wish for the sunshine, both agree upon the beau- 
tiful day. Old or young, sick or well, happy or un- 
happy, all see that the day is a beautiful one — one of 
the idylls of nature which all eyes see alike, all minds 



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sense it alike, and the union of thought surrounds it 
with the contributing attributes of perfection, and 
hence perfection is attained. Nature cannot im- 
prove it. 

And through the almost endless vistas of passing 
time this unity of thought will prevail with every 
living creature, and ultimate perfection and harmony 
and heaven will be instituted. 





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LOOK FOR THE LIGHT WHERE IT SHOULD BE. 
Mary Todd Lincoln. 

When the way of life looks dark, bear in mind that 
is how the night looks just before the break of day. 
Do not worry about the events gone by; do not be 
depressed by regrets over anything done or not done. 
These cannot at all times well be changed, so let them 
pass into the sere. Do not scan the heavens for light 
in the morning where the sun went down last night. 
Look to the eastern horizon for the first gray streaks 
of early dawn. Not that which was, but is to be, is 
what concerns us. Study to make a success in the 
future out of the failure in the past, and thus attain 
happiness. 

Columbus and his sailors saw the fogs and mists 
of an endless ocean just before they sighted the green- 
lands of the new world. The photographer emerges 
from the shades of his darkened room with the per- 
fected copy of form and feature to happify the wait- 
ing subject. 

The blackest waves of the troubled sea wash up the 
whitest spray. After the eclipse the sunbeams look 
the brighter. After the penitence the forgiveness 
touches us more kindly. After the thunder cloud 
rolls away the atmosphere is purer and sweeter. After 
repose in the silence and darkness, rejuvenation and 
invigoration follow. The sap under the bark sustains 
the life of the tree. Above the shadow of the cross 



134 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and the crucifixion rose release, relief, light. After 
death the resurrection. For happiness and joy look 
for the light where it should be, as the flowers and 
grasses of the field, and the lilies of the brook look 
for the sunshine's bounteous wealth behind the storm 
clouds. 

"Darkness was upon the face of the deep. 

And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." 



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THE HEIGHT AND THE DEPTH 

AND THE LENGTH AND THE BREADTH 
OF HEAVEN AND HELL 

AND THEIR POSSIBILITIES. 

Daniel Webster. 

The holy Bible has measured in cubits the gilded 
precincts of its constructed heaven, and the charred 
battlements of its hell, but the intellectual capacities 
of its writers were not far-seeing enough to contem- 
plate the oncoming demand of abodes the enlarged 
generations of the future would make. A narrow 
geographical boundary comprised the extent of the 
world, and hardly could be calculated a more exten- 
sive population than peopled the ancient cities of 
Sodom and Gomorrah, while the fertile plain-lands 
of Mamre offered fields for the occupancy of an in- 
creased populace. Later Mount Sinai became the cita- 
del of spiritual unfoldment in the halcyon days of 
Moses the law-giver. 

In the establishment of hell it automatically acted 
as a sort of side-room useful on occasions of an over- 
flow in the brighter realm. 

The cubic dimensions are evidence that the seating 
capacity of heaven was limited to a favored few se- 
lected by "so saith the Lord." But hell was unmeas- 
ured, and was ample to hold all who might not stand 
in with Saint Peter, who guarded the portals of the 
promised land. 

Hence the possibilities of heaven were extremely 
limited; those of hell were quite the reverse. The 



136 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

ancient sagacity of so proportioning respectively these 
two eternal abodes has been vividly revealed by the 
heavenward and hellward tendencies of the human 
race ever since. This is the physical aspect of a lit- 
eral heaven and hell. 

But the fearless spirit of mental liberty in its sharp- 
sighted discriminating intelligence became jealous of 
the close encroachments of the man-measured heaven, 
and saw that in the amiable weaknesses of human na- 
ture and the grasp of the ambition and passion of 
hell, reserved seats would become more seldom de- 
manded and less available around the heavenly 
throne. Hence with benevolent, patriotic and high 
purpose, progressive man resisted the prescribed lim- 
its, and builded out of the ideals of his advancing 
mind a heaven so limitless and permanent in its dura- 
tion that standing room at least might be secured for 
all the people of the ages past as well as for all the 
people of the ages of the future. 

This was a mental heaven of measureless boun- 
daries so high and so deep, so long and so wide, that 
it dwarfed to insignificance the possibilities of hell. 

Heaven is thought! Spirit is indestructible, unin- 
fluenced by wind or weather, tide or time, heat or 
cold. The literal hell which the ignorance of antiqui- 
ty reared was incapable of punishing a man or a spirit 
eternally, because physical conditions must deal only 
with the physical. His physical body would be con- 
sumed in the fiery caldron in an instant. But who in 
his most brilliant authority of thought can conceive 
of literal fire burning a spirit. It is impervious to 
all material surroundings. 

So heaven is a thought-world without location or 
boundary. It can be here, everywhere, now, always, 
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boundless as the ether spaces outlying and beyond all 
organized systems of universes. 

The mighty Samson of progress has slain the Go- 
liath gate-keeper of hell and its seething furnaces no 
longer terrorize, intimidate and craze the order-loving 
spirit of the twentieth century. 

Its possibilities are reduced, its circumference has 
dwindled, its arena is an ineffectual mass of dying 
embers. The mental heaven of condition is the new 
arena, the new field, the new territory, the new world, 
the new life, the hope, the thought, the beautiful 
ideality toward which is looking the soul's keenest 
eye of aspiration and inspiration. 



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LONE STAR AND THE PALE-FACE MAIDEN. 

Lone Star. 

(Written in his own dialect, interpreted by Black Hawk to the 

regular Seance Amanuensis for Mr. Stead and 

this English- written copy made.) 

In Deseret, afterward called Utah, troublesome 
times marked its early years. Col. Steptoe was 
frozen out in 1854 for trying to force United States 
regulations. For the same reason armed Mormons 
drove Judge Drummond out. Later Alfred Cum- 
ming and Judge Ecker, with an army numbering 
2,500, while at their posts under United States orders, 
met with successful armed resistance under the direc- 
tion of Brigham Young and his saints. Again Col. 
A. S. Johnson's army was beaten back by the Mormon 
army, and forced into winter quarters at Black's 
Forts. 

In 1857 a caravan of 150 non-Mormon emigrants 
entered and camped on their westward movement in 
the Mountain Meadow Valley, near Utah. Eyed with 
suspicion by both Mormons and Indians, I, acting as 
ambush man for the various tribes surrounding, hid 
myself several days in the thickets adjacent and ob- 
served the trend of the campers. 

One day a fair maiden wandered forth from the 
camp, bucket in hand, to a not far-off spring to fetch 
water. Her surpassing beauty, freshness and youth 
enchanted me. Next day I again watched her, and 
my heart throbs and emotions made me realize I could 
soon idolize her as a being from some superior realm 
of existence. I associated her with the wild flowers 



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of the field only so far as to mark her as the monarch 
of them all. The third day she passed me on the way 
to the spring, and upon her return I placed myself 
squarely in her pathway. Affrighted and seriously 
alarmed, she was paralyzed with sudden fear. But, 
by gracious motions and much pantomiming, I en- 
abled her to understand I meant her protection, not 
harm, and she returned to the camp. Immediately 
I gave the inexorable mandate to all the tribes that 
no harm should befall this camp from any of us, 
making them thus absolutely exempt from onslaught 
by any Indian tribe thereabout. 

One day when the sun was close to the western 
horizon, there was seen dashing down the mountain 
slopes on foot and on horseback, armed with rifles, 
hatchets and spears, what seemed a hostile tribe of 
war-clad Indians. These rushed upon the peaceful 
emigrants, shot, stabbed and brained men, women and 
children, ransacked their baggage, carrying off what 
was of value, and were soon lost to my view in the 
mountain thickets. Faithful to my orders, each tribe 
was shown to have had no participation in this mas- 
sacre. Lifting up the yet warm form of my slain 
maiden, I bore her swiftly to the spring whither I 
had often watched her go, and bathed the battered 
temples in the crystal flow. But my efforts were un- 
availing, for she silently passed to the hunting ground 
beyond. 

It was then and there I made a solemn vow to the 
Great Spirit above that I would avenge her slaughter. 
I would learn the English language, would trail her 
slayers to the ends of the earth, and bring them to 
justice. Upon my return to the camp of death I 
found our Indians gathered and doing what they 
could to relieve the dying. Some had innocently ap- 
propriated small trinkets from the clothing of the 



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dead. Mormon authorities bore down upon us and 
charged us with being the slayers of the victims for 
the purpose of plunder. 

To make a story short, I learned English, I be- 
came a detective and ferreted out the fact that instead 
of Indians it was a band of Mormon Saints disguised 
as Indian warfarers in paint and feathers who had 
borne down upon the emigrants, slaughtering every 
man, woman and child and carrying off everything 
of value in their retreat. No Indian had taken any 
part in the massacre. 

For twenty years I carried on my investigations, 
until I had collected convicting evidence against the 
marauding gang. The result was I saw hung upon 
the gibbet the slayer of my ideal beauty, the leader, 
a Mormon bishop named John D. Lee. 

The Mormon saints of Salt Lake City were the 
guilty assassins in the Mountain Meadow massacre, 
and not the tribes of Indians jointly but unjustly 
accused with them. 







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WHERE IS THE MILLENNIUM? 
John Ericsson. 

From the production of the semi-cylindrical engine 
to the centrifugal blowers, the hydrostatic gauge, the 
reciprocating fluid meter, the alarm barometer, the 
pyrometer and the ealoric engine, up to the iron-clad 
monitor that in Hampton Roads saved the American 
Union there was demonstrated what indomitable will 
backed up by inventive genius could do. 

But it is a question on which minds may differ 
whether it is more commendable to create a mechan- 
ism to save life than to destroy it. My caloric engine 
was designed to surround life with a greater degree 
of safety, to protect and save people and propert}; 
my monitor was made to destroy life and property. 

We may extend the view of the latter and justify 
it on the ground that the destruction of life and prop- 
erty by it was to the end that loss, greater loss, might 
ultimately be lessened. 

However much we may justify our acts in building 
stronger navies that by destroying, greater destruc- 
tion may be prevented, the supreme lamentation is 
still that such conditions should prevail in the world 
as to render designed destruction of any amount of 
life and property necessary for any purpose. 

There should not be any such state of affairs on 
earth as to necessitate the slaughter of one lot of 
people to protect the lives of another even larger 
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millennium. But how easy it is to see the imperfec- 
tions of present conditions ! 

The great harmonies of the greater universe are ad- 
justing themselves through the ceaseless energies of 
the law of progress. But no one can say properly 
that one or another great measure of action is justi- 
fied. It is not. It might necessitate a forced action, 
but it is necessitated by a wrong condition of affairs 
still back of it. The world is in a sadly undeveloped 
state. The millennium is far away, but by instinct 
we feel that it is lurking somewhere in the distant 
realms of time. 








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THE NEED IS FATHER TO THE WISH. 
Archbishop John Hughes. 

When we want something, then is the time, it is of 
value. That which we do not need is not of worth. 
The convalescent needs, andTto him or her is valuable, 
the balmy breath of the spring morning. But by the 
man or woman who has long lived in the atmosphere 
of the tropics, it is barely appreciated. The man who 
lives in the inlands and raises crops perceives no 
unusual beauty in the ravine and the valley that 
stretch out before his view. He longs to look upon 
the rolling waves of the sea. But the individual who 
passes his days in a fishing smack, catching bluefish, 
would gladly shepherd the flocks on the mountain- 
side. To the hungry man the fumes of cooking food 
are gracious. But the man who has finished his meal 
gathers no refreshment from steaming viands. The 
employee who rides on railway cars from morn till 
eve finds pleasure in the exercise of walk. Weston 
on his continuous Western tramp would have en- 
joyed the ease of a parlor car. The creature called 
man who resides in a shack on the meadows in the 
bay, and lives seven days in the week on clams, would 
heartily relish a broiled chicken served in the centre 
of civilization. The high-fed man could eat bivalve 
with keen enjoyment. The soul that lives in the hades 
of life cries for a taste of the heaven above. 

The man who is eternally blest (or cursed) with 
the quintessent glory of heaven would semi-occa- 
sionally enjoy a flying trip to the dungeons of sheol. 



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It is the eternal aspiration of the spirit for what it 
needs and does not have which makes the everlasting 
climb in existence. In the millennium to come when 
souls shall have found their counterparts in a Swe- 
denborgian amalgamation, and the heights of the 
seventh sphere of the seventh heaven shall have been 
reached, perfection will have been approached and we 
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THE SUNSHINE AND THE SHADOW. 

Phineas T. Barnum. 

It is like the changing skies of March or April. The 
sun is shining alternatingly between the rifts appear- 
ing here and there in the wind-swept clouds scudding 
across the sky. Up and down the hillsides is the swift 
sunshine chasing the fleeting shadows. The sunshine 
and the shade ! So through our mortal days do we 
see the shadows driving away the sunlight, and the 
sunbeams following the shades ; and these are the sun- 
shine and the shadow of life. Do you have them in 
your experience, gentle reader? Yes! No one has 
the bright beams of Aurora all the time. No one is 
so unfortunate as to have the days so densely ob- 
scured that no rifts appear in the dark dome of the 
sky of life. But which are you getting the most of, 
the light or the dark? 

People have learned that explosions of powder 
bring the raindrops from the sky. The Fourth of 
July celebrations have revealed this. By means and 
methods men are learning how to irrigate arid plains 
and transform them into fertile productive fields. 
Cannot we acquire the habit of chasing away the 
clouds that roll up in our sky of existence and let 
the broad unfettered shine of the sun warm and il- 
lumine our way? "It is more blessed to give than to 
receive," but when we all become givers we will all 
become receivers. 

Almost my entire natural life was devoted to the 
amusement of my fellow-beings. And it was not all 



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for the love of gain, for investments for the accumula- 
tion of means was more productive than my show 
business. But it was a source of delight to me to 
interest and amuse the public. And many a tear- 
bathed sigh was chased over the hillside of life by 
a sunbeam of gladness shining in the amusement of 
my pleasure-giving American resorts. 

That satisfaction to my soul was greater than 
money wealth. If I were to live my earth life again, 
I would devote nine-tenths of its time to making other 
people glad, to driving the shadows out of their lives. 

Let not your mortal life end without the satisfac- 
tion of knowing that at some time, at some place and 
in some way you lifted the burden of sorrow from at 
least one suffering soul. 

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THERE IS NOTHING WONDERFUL. 
Robert Bonner. 

Nothing is really wonderful of itself, because every- 
thing that is, is natural, and everything that shall be, 
will be natural. 

To-day several men and women and children are 
enjoying a conversation on the lawn in the cool of 
the day, and a swift-going express train sweeps past. 
It hardly attracts the attention of those facing the 
track. One or another may glance up in the midst of 
the conversation scarcely realizing the passing train. 
Those sitting backs toward the train do not turn 
around even to look. Our forefathers of a hundred 
years ago, could they resume place in the earth-life 
with the same degree of progress attained at that 
time, would traverse great distances under extraordi- 
nary difficulties to view in awe that which does not 
now more than merely momentarily attract atten- 
tion of the veriest child. The great steamships of 
the seas cross and recross the blue waves of the At- 
lantic without stirring the slightest unusual interest. 
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the Adamses 
and others of a past century would view with admir- 
ing wonder the giants of the deep. 

In the near events of a near-by future we shall 
gaze with admiration and enthusiasm at the ships of 
the air, when great aerial ships fill the sky-spaces and 
navigate the air currents like some antediluvian 
winged monsters of remote ages. But a hundred years 
later these great air-ways will be crowded with the 



152 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

passing air ships without causing a man, woman or 
child to tip the head for an upward look. Thousands 
of people ride, talk, eat and write under the broad 
rivers of New York, and under the buildings and 
streets, without giving a passing thought to their sur- 
roundings, and yet this greatest of engineering feats 
accomplished, the subways of New York, is scarcely 
written down yet for the pages of future history. 
Because it has become commonplace, familiar, 
usual, the people look upon it as a mere matter of 
course. Yet generation upon generation lie molder- 
ing in their graves who never conceived of such de- 
velopments. 

Everything is the outcome of naturalism. All the 
so-called wonders yet to be evolved will be as com- 
monplace sometime as the anvil in the blacksmith 
shop is now. There is not anything wonderful. All 
is a natural production. 



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THE MIND'S EYE. 
Dinah Maria Muloch-Craik. 

And when I lie in the green kirk-yard, 

With the mold upon my breast, 
Say not that she did well — or ill ; 

Only, "She did her best." 

The mind of mankind sees as vividly as the physical 
eye. This is evidence in the sleeping person. The 
mental pictures drawn in dreams are to the sleep- 
enshrouded mind as actual as the occurrences of the 
waking hours. Could the sleeper sleep on and dream 
forever without waking, he would have a life as full 
to him of realities as the reader of these lines has. 

Not alone does the mental scene become living ac- 
tuality, but also do the senses of hearing and feeling 
and taste spring into activity in the mind of the 
sleeper. It tastes and touches and feels without the 
usual functions of the mortal body. 

Two men were accompanying a blind man on a 
railroad train through New York State. Number one 
of the trio had written a book entitled "Scenes in 
Southern Cities/ ' and he had handed a copy of it to 
passenger number two, who at once became so en- 
grossed therein as to be oblivious to his immediate 
surroundings. Man number three was totally blind. 
The author of the book was describing the scenes 
along the railroad to the blind man, whose response 
was a mental picture of the same. He saw them with 
his mind. 

The reader of the book was having described to him 
in its chapters, by the same man number one, scenes 



154 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

laid in the Southland, and he was seeing with his 
mind what had appeared to the eye of the author. 
Here was the unique situation of two men seeing 
mentally at the same time two scenes which their 
physical eyes had never seen, but which had actually 
existed, scenes presented to the eye of the first man 
of the two. His mind was transferring to two other 
minds at one and the same time variously different 
scenes. The blind man could see the sluggish waters 
of the Erie Canal, the busy factories, the thriving 
towns. The reader was enchanted with the sunbeams 
glistening keen and bright on the ocean waves that 
washed the bulwarks of old Fort Sumter. Before him 
rose the historic spire of St. Michael's Church, and 
the quaint scenes of the city of Charleston. And 
both pictures were as vivid in the mental eyes of the 
two auditors as they were in the physical vision of 
the spokesman of the trio. 

A man can see with his mind anything anywhere 
that some one else has seen. He can sit on the steps 
of the City Hall or in a back room in the Five Points 
House of Industry, and view the dome of St. Peters 
in Eome, or the majestic ruins of the Colosseum and 
the decaying beauties that adorned the Appian Way. 
He can stand with a book in his hand in Chatham 
Square and enjoy the beauties of the distant Nile, or 
he may sit in the shadow of the pyramids of Egypt 
and scan the far-off jungles of the African swamps. 

One day " so delicately powerful will become the 
mental eye that the physical eye will be regarded as 
useless as the spleen or the appendix in a man's body, 
or as eyes in the blind fishes of the caverns of the 
Mammoth Cave. Mind is to be the great surveyor of 
the universe. 



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SOME OF THE FOLLIES AND FRAILTIES OF 
EDUCATION. 

Benjamin Franklin. 

The recent uprising in Boston and elsewhere of 
several thousand school children in revolt against 
the many hours of school sessions is but the prelude 
to a decided and much-needed revision of educational 
methods. While the act itself of juvenile revolution 
points to a laxity of parental restraint and is to be 
deprecated — for no one is entitled to the liberty of 
overthrowing any system of government or education, 
right or wrong, until he has learned submission to 
fixed laws — it is clearly the advance smoke of the on- 
coming holocaust of reform which is now smouldering 
all over the land. 

What is the present routine of the school attend- 
ant? It is repair to the school room at 9 o'clock in 
the morning, an hour at noon for a hurried lunch, 
then back in the close school room until 3i or 4 o'clock 
in the afternoon, followed by the hurry home, where 
the hours before nightfall are occupied in studying 
lessons for the next day. Difficult problems are en- 
countered, which must be explained by the parents, 
after which the child retires for a night of troubled, 
restless sleep, almost the entire waking hours hav- 
ing been occupied in study. A child requires relaxa- 
tion from this tax on the brain and nerves. Any 
child who has passed six or seven hours in a usually 
crowded and poorly ventilated school room should 
not be required by the exigencies of the situation to 



156 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

spend the remainder of the day to book application. 
It should be out in the air to romp and play, to get 
that absolute emancipation from the slavery of per- 
petual study. 

And why is the long time necessary? Because so 
many advanced branches of learning are forced into 
the common schools. 

Nine hundred and ninety-nine children all through 
later life have no possible use for the higher-up in- 
formation which the one thousandth scholar may fol- 
low. Hence the nine hundred and ninety-nine chil- 
dren, whose lives will be devoted to ordinary mer- 
cantile pursuits, must spend their entire time in use- 
less studies in order that the thousandth one may 
pursue those intricate investigations which may in- 
terest him in life. Nine hundred and ninety-nine 
pupils must wrestle with the difficulties of trigo- 
nometry to measure triangles, which only the isolated 
student will ever see. An embryo Agassiz or Spencer 
or Huxley or Darwin might need the rudiments 
necessary in later palceolological labors toward a 
basis of ichthyological classification, or the difficul- 
ties of teratology ; or a regenerated Bancroft, or Luigi 
Carlo Farini, or Alured Alredus in his Saxon trans- 
lations of the Church of Beverley, or a Eichard 
Farmer might need the education of an historian. 
The one thousandth scholar may need the light on 
the fluctuation of myelitis, or to have expounded the 
complexities of myrialiter, or the system of stere- 
ometry, but nine hundred and ninety-nine boys and 
girls should not be held from exercise in God's pure 
air and sunlight to know of those subjects which 
must ever prove a burden. 

When Demosthenes would speak regularly he 
bothered no one, but walked the shore of the sea 
with pebbles in his mouth. Why should two thous- 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 157 

and children be kept unnecessary hours in school 
and out of it trying to master the accent of Magyar 
and Madhi, and Mahori and Mohratti, or the use of 
louchettes in strabismus, because two pupils are to 
be interested in those ways? A baby Herschel may 
be a suckling at the breast of teinoscope to correct 
chromatic aberration; a reincarnated Johann Gott- 
lieb Fichte may be standing over the resting place of 
the philosophico-theological knowledge of Kant; a 
new student may arise to handle the tricontahedral 
and stereometry methods, the trilobite, the fossil 
crustacean of the Palaeozoic period, or to observe the 
construction of strongyloides, dicrocoelium, dibothrio- 
cephalus, balantidium, eimeria, dipylidium, schisto- 
soma and other animal parasites; or to compare the 
myelocytes-neutrophilic, myelocytes-eosinophilic and 
monocuclear neutrophiles of pathological white cell 
elements with the nonnucleated macrocytes, mycro- 
cytes and poikilocytes, and nucleated normoblasts, 
megaloblasts and microblasts of the pathological red 
cell elements; or to compute the values of normal 
white corpuscles comprising polymorphonuclear 
neutrophiles, lymphocytes, eosinophiles and baso- 
philic leucocytes ; but his place for study is not in the 
school room with a thousand scholars who must be 
dragged along with him through the tedious quag- 
mires of these abstract preparations. 

The common school should be for the ordinary rud- 
iments of every day commercial education, with less 
time wasted in singing, reading chapters in an obso- 
lete book, and a great deal of other methodical non- 
sense, and allow time for outdoor exercise to innate 
the lungs, develop the muscles and promote the gen- 
eral health and strength and longevity of the human 
race. All those more complex and intricate branches 
of study should be in separate schools for later mas- 



158 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

tery by the few who would see their life-line leading 
toward those more difficult and more seldom entered 
fields of learning and vocation. The common public 
schools should open at 9 o'clock in the morning and 
close at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. 



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"ONE TOUCH OF NATUEE MAKES THE 
WHOLE WOELD KIN." 

W. W. Corcoran. 

All the operations of nature are impartial. She 
has no favorites. She favors no one person or thing. 
The winds blow and the storms beat the same upon 
the weak and the strong. The sun's rays illumine 
and warm both the rich and the poor, the trees cast 
their gentle shade over the just and the unjust, and 
the greensward is refreshing and gladdening to the 
hearts of all. Nature proffers her bounty without 
fear or favor to all who will partake thereof. It has 
been said that one touch of nature makes the whole 
world kin. But she does more than this. With a 
single sweep of her hand of power she transfers all 
inanimate things to a seemingly equal standard. 

Notice this in the demonstration of her might re- 
vealed in the tornado and the torrent. They lead all 
before them, stopping at neither the palace nor the 
poorhouse. In the swiftness of the flood the master 
masonry of bridges and viaducts submerge side by 
side with the plastered walls and thatched roofs of 
hovels, and impartially nature decorates and adorns 
everything she touches with the falling snowflakes. 
The gilded spire of the church in town and the limb- 
less trunk of a rotten tree in the forest are painted 
alike, in the immaculate whiteness of nature. The 
rough and ugly split-rail fence in the country field 
and the costlier pickets of the city house look equally 
fair under the coat of snow. The ragged places in 



162 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

the unkempt sidewalk and the chiseled slabs of the 
flagged pavement are embellished alike. The well- 
to-do boy goes in the hall to get his overcoat; the 
poor boy goes out in the snow storm to get his. When 
they come in both look alike in their coats of snow. 
The battered shingles of the failing cottage and the 
slate slopes of the stately mansion are adorned the 
same by the storm of snow. The dilapidated eaves 
of the beggar's hut and the mitred troughs of the 
new made home are frescoed alike by the magic hand 
of the arctic artist of nature. She has no favorites, 
her bounty falls upon all people and all things alike. 
Verily, "One touch of nature makes the whole world 
kin." 



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MAN'S WEAKNESS AS A PHYSICAL BEING 
AND HIS STRENGTH MENTALLY. 

Samuel T. Langley. 

Many of us are aware that matter is as indestruc- 
tible as spirit, and when we commonly speak of mak- 
ing something, for instance as making a table or a 
chair, or making a bracelet or other article, techni- 
cally considered we merely hue it or mold or cast it; 
we shape it from matter already in some form of ex- 
istence. Spirit is likewise a mere temporary occu- 
pant of a material body. Spirit is not made, it is 
and was and will be. By permission of holy writ we 
may criticise the work of God in "making" man. His 
self-inspired Bible distinctly states that He molded 
man out of material already in existence, as a potter 
forms his products from the pliable clay, or a car- 
penter builds a house from the materials at hand. In 
the book of Genesis the statement is clearly given 
thus : "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of 
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life, and man became a living soul, * * * for 
dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return." Cu- 
riously enough we have here the complication of a 
man being dead before he had given up life; and 
Adam and Eve were the first, last and only human 
being who ever missed the beauties of babyhood. 
Whatever the idiosyncrasies, the eccentricities or 
faults supposed to attach to childhood, Adam and his 



164 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

wife could not be justly reproached for not having 
outgrown the shortcomings of their youthful days. 

It is not contended by careful Bible readers that 
God even, created the life He imparted to Adam. He 
"breathed into his nostrils the breath of life," a com- 
modity already in existence and at God's command. 
He did not make it, He merely applied it. Breath 
being the life, and life being the spirit, God put into 
personal existence the life that was at His call. And 
this life must endure as long as God's existence, for 
in the judgment of the good and the bad He states: 
"And these (the bad) shall go away into everlasting 
punishment; but the righteous into life eternal" 
"Everlasting" and "eternal" are the synonym of 
forever, and God cannot outlive that. He made 
something that will exist as long as Himself. 

Now we come to a consideration of the remarkable 
mental power of man. He can by the direction of 
his mental energies build that which will longer en- 
dure in the form he makes it than will his own body 
formation. A man can mold a plaster mask; he can 
hew out and hang boards that will make a house ; he 
can kiln bricks that will erect a structure, all of 
which will long outlast the form of his own mortal 
body. He may give that wonderful machine all the 
fuel it seems to need, all the oil it seems to require, 
but when it has run three-score years and ten he must 
keep a close look-out on its safety valves. But the 
engines this frail physical form put together for the 
great steamships will be plunging their mighty piston 
rods across the oceans of the world long after the 
hands that constructed them lie crumbled in the dust 
of the tomb. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 165 

Man as a physical being is exceedingly weak. The 
tempest that hurls its rushing blast in vain against 
the ships of the ocean and the air can easily place the 
weak mortal in the narrow precincts of a grave in 
the ground. 

But mentally man is great. He can build better 
than his own body is builded. 




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A VISIT TO WASHINGTON AND ALBANY. 

Mrs. Partington. 
(B. P. Shillaber.) 

At the time of the President's inauguration Ike 
and I made a flying visit in an airy plain to Wash- 
ington. In my earlier years they called it a plain 
flying machine; now they assignate it an airy plain. 
Ike insured me that we would make the journey in 
safety, the only trouble would be to light. So it 
proved. We all were reciprocated with a bump onto 
the mud flats near the histrionic Ptomainic River. 
This is the same river referred to so often during the 
war of the rebellious, when the look-outs called at 
midnight, "All is quiet on the Ptomainic !" I am told 
it was a beautiful river before the gunboats desiccated 
it and one end of it flew into the Chesapeake Bay. 
The other passengers in the airy plain fully enjoyed 
the trip, not being at all conscientious of the eminent 
danger they were in. 

The next day was the 4th of March. Ike secured us 
two celebrated seats on the bandstand, right out in 
the open air with nothing but the canister of heaven 
over our heads. Pretty soon the possession advanced 
up Pennsylvania avenue, and it was grand. First 
came some flags and banners flying in the breeze, 
followed by a squad of mounted policemen unin- 
formed in blue and brass buttons. Then the Presi- 
dent, proceeded by a few old inveterates of the war 
of 1812, himself drove up in person and lifted his hat 
to Ike and me. He evidently knew we were strangers 
in town, and so he welcomed us. Next in the posses- 



168 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

sion came the calvary. They were fine bare-back 
riders. I admired the calvarymen greatly. They 
were in full dress and their unicorns fitted them 
tightly. If I knew their tailor I would have him 
make Ike a spring suit. Eegiments from all the 
states marched by in regular lockstep, and the rear 
end of the possession was lined up with a tribe of 
Indians fresh from the Indian Tributary. I pre- 
sume it was for them the band played "Hail to the 
Chief." One old chief had on tar and feathers. Be- 
side him marched his chiefess, and following was a 
chiefless. Some one said this chiefless lost her chief 
in the Crime era war. I had often heard Ike read in 
The Sun the head lines "Indian Kelations" and "Our 
Indian Affairs/' but I never thought I should see 
them. I can't say I regard them as any special credit 
to us in being our relations or any of our affairs. 
Bright skies and crisp weather flavored the occasion. 
There were many exciting sideshows. Two police 
came along leading a man with the most agnotized 
impression possible decapitated on his face. At first 
I thought I had seen an optical delusion, but Ike 
learned that the man had been drinking spiritualist 
liquors and was in an incomprehensible condition. 
They feared delirium trimmings might set in. One 
would suppose the saloons could be closed on such a 
day as presenting the President a seat in the White 
House. They all kept open, however, and, strangely 
enough, the government and the police sanctified it. 
I wonder how they get room in the White House for 
so many seats. I understand they have given every 
President one. Several bicycles had their tires tinc- 
tured, and there were many miner missteps. People 
talk much about the ineffigy of the police, but on this 
occasion they did well. I believe in giving every man 
his duty. 



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I called on the Washington Monument, the highest 
edifice of masonry in the world. I always knew that 
George Washington was a mason, but I don't see 
how he ever built such a tall tombstone to cover his 
remains. 

Sad to say, I extracted quite a severe cold sitting 
out of doors, and I took to my bed ill the next day 
and was dozed up with rostrums from the apostrophe 
shop. I suffered with swelliness on my lungs, and 
I feared ammonia might set in, but the fysican said 
all that ailed me was a slight attack of plumbago. 
We had to cancel two opera tickets that evening to 
hear some extinguished European belladonna sing. I 
was afraid my suffering might necessitate placing me 
under the effects of an aesthetic, but the fysican ax- 
ministered an aunty skeptic. Later, my stomach not 
feeling quite settled, I took a good strong epidemic 
and felt better. Later I took a few doses of Ayer's 
Cherry Pictorial. We returned home via the railroad 
track. 

In June Ike and I went up to Albany to hear the 
legislators argue to and fro the woman suffering 
question. I believe in woman suffering. I don't 
think men should do it all. 

We took a daylight sail up the beautiful Hudson 
on one of the Hudson Narrow Gauge Company's line 
of steamers. Beautiful scenes adorned the shores, 
among them were Newberg, Dobbs Ferry and Sing 
Sing Prison. They say the residue to the Hudson 
Narrow Gauge Company is very lubricating during 
the summer months for importing people between 
Albany and New York. 

There were some wonderful paintings in the ro- 
tundity of the Capitol. One was a picture of Johan 
of the Ark. He was in uniform on a horse, a mere 
boy leading an army to warfare. I suppose Noah 



170 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

gave Johan the horse when they left the ark. On 
another wall hung a magnified painting of Hannah 
Nyas and Sophia. Anyone to look at them would 
not believe they were such liars as to be struck dead. 
A Latin subscription under this picture required a 
lingerist to interpolate. 

Albany is a very generous city. No one has to 
pay board there. Two or three signs in every block 
read "Free Lunch." I think those places must be 
conductored by legislators in the Capitol. Ike read 
in the papers that barrels of money roll in there at 
every secession. I tried several of the free lunch 
houses and found that women in Albany do not eat. 
Only men were in them. I saw some of the same kind 
of barrels in the lunch rooms that Ike read about 
rolling into the Capitol. 

I had felt that a visit to our two capitols would 
make me quite high-toned, but instead of being high- 
tonder I returned home feeling low-tonder. 

Before leaving I listened to some lawyers arguing 
a prisoner's base. In future I shall never approve of 
convicting any man on merely substantial evidence. 
I don't like to see an innocent man placed in so 
nefarious a situation. 

Upon my arrival home I blessed God that in heaven 
there would never be found a doctor, a minister or an 
undertaker. 



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MEN AND WOMEN ARE ONLY BOYS AND 
GIRLS. 

Sarah J. Hale. 

Men are little boys in large stature, it has been 
said, indicating that in sentiment the spirit is ever 
in the buoyancy of youth. A man and a woman are 
as young as they feel, is an old saying. Send a man 
to a toy shop to get a toy to amuse a little child, and 
he will invariably select what seems to himself the 
best fungiver. He does not consider what the child 
would most enjoy, but what most amuses the man. 
After all, the man is the child. 

Let us ever remember that the indwelling spirit and 
not the outward physical form is the actual person. 
A spirit is neither young nor aged; it always was 
and forever will be. It is made to appear in some 
instances young or old according to the environment 
through which it manifests itself to others in various 
mortal states of bondage. The old questions are now 
repeated with good application, "When does a boy 
cease to be such and become a man?" "When does a 
kitten become a cat?" "When does a colt become a 
horse, and a calf become a cow?" When, I ask, does 
youth cease and when does old age begin? 

Suppose you could never see your physical body, 
could you correctly judge its age by your feelings? 
Hardly. You do not advance in age perceptibly in 
feeling because the spirit in feeling keeps you ever 
youthful. You remember how, twenty years ago, you 
ran the bases of a ball field with the agility of youth, 



172 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and you pulled a tick-tack against your neighbor's 
window to startle him and amuse yourself. You 
jumped the stile back of the barn, and went up and 
down the hayloft ladder as spryly as a monkey. 

To-day you would like to do the same things. The 
love for them is in your soul yet, only the physical 
joints are a little stiffer and the breath is shorter. 
You stand leaning against the doorway in a dreamy 
reverie of youth's bright days, and you are awakened 
by the boys running by and exclaiming, "Look ! there 
stands old Mr. Johnson asleep!" or, "There sits old 
Mrs. Taylor rocking herself !" The words startle and 
arouse you. Old! Can it be possible you appear old? 
And you hasten within to the mirror and behold the 
whitened locks, the wrinkled face, the bent form, and 
you exclaim, "Old Mr. Johnson !" "Old Mrs. Taylor !" 
It seems but yesterday that your hair was black, your 
face smooth, your figure erect. Now you are old, 
and you did not know it till the children in the street 
told you so. In spirit, in thought, in inclination, you 
are as young as you ever were. In desire you spring 
the peach-orchard fence and climb the wild apple 
tree. Men and women are only boys and girls. 



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HOW THOUGHTS ARE CARRIED. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

Light rides on the ether waves and is conveyed thus 
from one remote point to another without consuming 
any of the ether spaces; the telegraphic message is 
transferred from one end to the other of the wire 
without destroying the wire; the wireless message 
speeds over land and over sea through the spaces 
above it, but these apparent voids are in no wise di- 
minished. When you receive a message by telegraph 
what is it you get from the one who sent it? Nothing 
tangible whatever. You receive a piece of paper from 
the operator near you bearing certain character signs 
which you call, for instance, writing in the English 
language. But the one who sent you the message 
did not write it, never saw it, never saw the person 
who did write it. Miles away he wrote one like it, 
and the operator there took that and, by certain 
signs and methods of invention, copied or duplicated 
it to the operator at your end of the line. This last 
operator has never seen the man who indited the mes- 
sage to you, nor the operator who communicated it 
to him. The written document you hold in your 
hand is nothing from the men who sent it. But 
there is an intangible something you receive greater 
than the substance you hold — something that has 
been conveyed through two middlemen and a variety 
of mechanical devices. It is the thought of the man 
or the woman far away which by divers means and 
methods has been conveyed to you. He or she thought, 



174 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

and that is transferred to you, and you think what he 
or she thought. The click of the machine, the electric 
spark, the letters written at both ends of the line are 
nothing but the unintelligent carriage that trans- 
ported the subtle, intangible thought from one brain 
to another at widely separated locations. It is a 
wonderful method, example, of thought transference. 

When a man stands in front of you and impresses 
you with his thought, he does it through the medium 
of the electric, magnetic and other subtle means of 
transportation. If he knew how he could transfer 
this thought to you though ten thousand miles inter- 
vened between you, even as is on very rare occasions 
done now in a manner unknown. This mode of com- 
munication is one of the possibilities of the future 
When all material and wireless apparatus will be 
discarded. 

You pick up the morning paper and read of a hotel 
burned in Chicago. You did not see the fire, the fire 
itself is not in the paper. You have not seen anyone 
who did see it. But some one did, and it was in his 
thought. His thought goes out to thousands of per- 
sons, including yourself. You read in your copy of 
the paper the full account of the fire, and your family 
read it. Has anything been taken away from the 
paper? Has anything been taken away from the 
paper by several reading it? Is it any less after it 
has been read by a dozen persons? No, because it is 
not the substance in your hands you are taking. The 
thought it hears is what you take. The paper is an- 
other form of the wire, the operator. 

You visit the art gallery and you gaze upon the 
marvelous picture of the holy family under the tree, 
painted by Kaphael. You do not see Eaphael, you 
do not see the family or the tree, but as you look 
upon the painting you think what Kaphael thought, 



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you get his thoughts. A million persons may view 
the picture, but none of the lustre of its ideality is 
withdrawn from it. Nothing is lost to it, because it 
gives nothing of itself away. It is the common car- 
rier of a thought that was in the master artist's 
mind. The sad little faces and the more solemn older 
ones in that painting excite your admiration and 
your reverence as they did of the man who painted 
them. Some time, somewhere, some way, those eyes 
existed, and the thought of them was conveyed to 
Kaphael's mind, and Kaphael has conveyed them to 
your mind. So when you look upon a remarkable 
painting, or on one not remarkable, you are not look- 
ing upon the artist, but upon his thought. His mind 
has touched your mind through the spans of years and 
the distances of spaces. You are living in a world 
of mentalities. Do you ever stop to think when you 
see a wagon going down the street that you are look- 
ing into the mind and the thought of some one whose 
physical form went to ashes centuries ago? 









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THE POST WITH AN IRON RING IN THE SIDE 
AND A STONE TOP. 

Emily C. Judson. 

We feel by our vision as we do by sounds and by 
touch. I will illustrate: For example, let us sup- 
pose there is standing in a field a wooden post, and 
in the side of the post is an iron ring, and on the top 
of the post is secured a cross cut out of stone. You, 
the conscious ego, have three ways of feeling the post. 
First, you may be sightless, but by close contact with 
the post through the tips of the fingers, your mind 
or brain becomes sensitive to its presence and ap- 
pearance. Second, a person may give you such a de- 
tailed vivid description of it that your consciousness 
feels it. And, third, you may pass by and see it, and 
the sight transfers it to your perception. Through 
the organ of the eye your brain consciousness is 
touched by the post, it feels the smooth wood, the hard 
iron, the rough granite. It matters not whether you 
touch the post or see it, in either experience you 
know at once that the post is there. The consciousness 
is touched by the object. Stultify the consciousness, 
and though you look at the post, you see it not, and 
though you touch it, you feel it not. There must ex- 
ist the quality to be touched ere you can know any- 
thing about the post. The vision causes the object 
to touch the consciousness just as much as actual con- 
tact with it does. So when you say you see an ob- 
ject, you do not see it. It has simply touched the 
consciousness through the organ of the eye. It is 



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the consciousness of the presence of an object that 
makes it exist within your vibration of existence. 
Unless the consciousness be touched through one of 
the three methods named — seeing, feeling or hear- 
ing — the object is not in existence at all within your 
scope or vibration or plane of life. 




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ONE HUNDRED. 

The Man Who Sat in the Sycamore Tree. 

One hundred is a small number, is it not? One 
hundred cents is not a large amount of money. One 
hundred dollars is a little more. One hundred per- 
sons is not a great many, just a little group. But 
one billion five hundred thousand millions of persons 
is a great rise in numbers, is it not. This is the esti- 
mated population of the earth to-day. One hundred 
years is not a long time when we compare it with the 
sixty thousand years the Niagara gorge used up 
wearing its way back from the heights of Lewiston 
to the present city of Buffalo. 

Let the thought wander back through the misty 
spaces to the Neolithic and Pleistocene caverns of 
prehistoric days. In this dreamy flow of time there 
were Bronze Ages, and Iron Ages, and Glacial Ages, 
and other ages so remote that the number of years 
reaching to them would be a meaningless mass of 
figures. There were times when antediluvian beasts 
and huge reptiles now extinct strode the plains and 
crawled through slimy marshes, roaring like the thun- 
der of the clouds and hissing like monstrous syphons ; 
an age when this earth hung flexile in its cooling 
processes, when great morasses spread their mias- 
matic poisons near and far, when wild funga and 
dank grasses and immense bogs grew in these deadly 
fens, and suffocating gases and scalding vapors drifted 
loweringly over these steaming malarial swamps of 
primeval times; an age when through the fogs and 



180 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

mists the sun hung like a great red ball of fire in the 
zenith of the firmament. When we wander in sub- 
lime reverie to these phantom periods, a little hundred 
years looks very small, doesn't it? Yet in this brief 
fleeting time probably every man, woman and child 
now making up the one billion, five hundred thous- 
and millions of persons will sleep in the grave the 
great slumber of the mortal body. Nearly every per- 
son born into mortal life during the next quarter of 
a century will go to the tomb. A very large percent- 
age of the people born within the next fifty years will 
rest in the grave during this present little one hun- 
dred years. The span of an earthly lifetime is very 
short when we regard the countless ages of world 
building. In the passing centuries millions upon mil- 
lions of souls have come, made earth their brief 
bivouac in their eternal march, then passed on. Does 
it pay to bicker and quarrel with one another at this 
little halfway house at the meeting of the crossroads? 
Is it worth while to burden, to oppress, to distress, 
to blight, to sadden with harsh words and ungener- 
ous acts the little while allotted us to tarry here? 
The great millennium has been knocking at our doors 
ever since the world came into existence. Shall we 
lift the latch, let the bolt fall and the door swing 
softly ajar? One hundred is a small number! 
















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MEASURING THE WIND'S VELOCITY, CHURCH 

STEEPLES AND THE REVOLUTIONS 

OF THE EARTH. 

Christopher Columbus. 
(Xpo Ferens.) 

I believed the earth to be a round globe, but 
whether it turned around the sun and other celestial 
bodies, or whether these revolved around the earth, 
was a question uncertainly answered. A voyage on 
the ocean could not present an answer with the means 
of determination as they existed at that time. Mak- 
ing a voyage around the world could determine its 
being a sphere only. The Copernican theory was a 
mooted question, it having such wide and apparently 
intelligent denial as to leave its fact or fallacy much 
a matter of doubt to the average mind. Whether the 
moving of the sun or the moving of the earth was 
causing the day and night was a puzzle to me. 

In the years of making ready for my trip to Asia, I 
conducted experiments on my own responsibility, the 
results of which indicated clearly to me the revolu- 
tion of the earth. I give this account because it never 
before has been given to the world. Obtaining per- 
mission, I suspended from the inside topmost center 
of the highest dome in Woolsthorpe a weighted line 
such as bricklayers use in laying up a wall. Be- 
neath this I arranged a table with a circular mov- 
ing top capable of a revolving motion upon the 
slightest inclination of the floor or building from any 
cause whatsoever. To this revolving top I applied 
markings of subdivisions representing the parallax of 



182 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

the heavenly bodies and the longitudinal and lati- 
tudinal divisions of the earth, with the plumb-bob 
suspended as directly in the center as it could be 
maintained. 

As the earth turned toward the east the bob moved 
in a minute similar direction and the revolving top- 
let of the under contrivance moved almost imper- 
ceptibly to the bob. A compass on the table top 
showed the needle slightly deflected from the mark- 
ings of its cabinet in twelve hours. This could be 
marked only from the top of a high structure. At 
night I noticed the circular trend of all the constel- 
lations, planets, etc., and that Ursa Major, the Great 
Dipper, never passed below the northern horizon, day 
or night. 

In my young days at home I found that by leaping 
forward in the direction a stiff breeze was blowing, 
then jumping against the breeze and reckoning the 
minute time it required to cover the same distance 
in both ways, I could compute the velocity of the wind 
by the degree of resistance. Sir Isaac Newton, two 
hundred years later, claimed this method original 
with himself. I have shown this was done by myself 
in my young years. 

In making my markings by a stake driven in the 
ground, I noticed by the passing of the sun's rays 
that the shadow grew from long to short, then elon- 
gated again. At one time in the day the stake would 
cast a shadow equal in length to itself. Concluding 
that all other objects must cast shadows equal in 
length to their height at the same time, it occurred 
to me how easy to thus measure the height of a 
building or a church spire. Driving a stake in the 
ground in front of the church I measured the shadow 
of the steeple when the shadow of the stake was equal 
to itself, and thus I had the height of the steeple. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 183 



MAZIE'S MEDIUM.* 

a heretofore unpublished reminiscence of 
spiritualism. 

Cyrus West Field. 

Time sweeps by so unobservedly rapidly that oc- 
curring events soon cease to be current, and the pass- 
ing on of persons familiar with early incidents and 
the coming forward of new generations of people tend 
to push into obscurity questions which interested the 
world very much at one time. 

One matter never until now explained related to 
the formerly much talked of "Mazie's Medium." A 
most curious misapplication of terms was respon- 
sible for the misunderstanding. The expression 
"Mazie's Medium" was well abroad among the spirit- 
ualists of a few decades ago. A few of the wiseacres 
offered explanations of the somewhat vague appella- 
tion, but the mass of interested investigators heard 
of and talked of "Mazie's Medium" with about the 
same degree of intelligence they did of Mahomet's 
coffin. She was often spoken of, but none except the 
few wise ( ? ) ones referred above knew very much 
about her and from them it was learned that this 
medium was the first in modern days endowed with 
the power to show materialized spirit forms and 
faces. 

In 1848 the raps in the cottage occupied by the 
Fox family at Hydesville, a suburb of Rochester, 
N. Y., attracted the attention of the three children 

♦"Mazie" is a nickname or fond name for Mary. 



184 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

of the family. The parents at first took but casual 
notice of the story laughingly told of the nightly 
interviews with old "Splitfoot" in the garret of the 
cottage. Questions were readily answered by the 
mysterious rapper, indicating that he could hear what 
the girls said. But it was not until one of the chil- 
dren held up, in the dark room, three, then two 
fingers and asked "Splitfoot" to rap the number cor- 
responding to the number of fingers, which was 
rapped correctly, that the child exclaimed in aston- 
ishment, "Why ! It can see as well as hear !" 

Later mediums for various phases sprang up over 
the country. Henry Slade had directions from a 
deceased wife to hold slates with a bit of pencil be- 
tween. Slade was the first medium known since 
Moses to obtain writing from departed spirits on 
slates. Many others afterwards developed this phase, 
a few of whom achieved great distinction and inter- 
national reputation. Numerous phases of medium- 
ship were developed more largely in America 
than in Europe. Close to the year 1870 the 
country was startled by the announcement that 
the head and bust of a deceased person had material- 
ized and become visible in the upper part of New 
York state, and also in the state of Vermont. This 
opened a new era of interest and investigation, and 
the new phase first became known as the mazy mani- 
festation, from the fact that witnesses were lost in 
a maze of wonderment, overwhelmed by the intricate, 
mazy phenomenon of a phantom or spectral being 
assuming solidity. The word "materialization" had 
not then been applied to the new demonstration. For 
a considerable time the phase was known only as the 
"mazy manifestation," and the mediums were dubbed 
the "Mazy Mediums." Time passed on and in the 
development of terms as well as of phenomena the 






SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 185 

real origin of the Mazy Mediums was lost, many per- 
sons coming to suppose the expression was merely a 
fond, endearing derivation from the name Mary, it 
being that of the first materializing medium. 

Much discussion and claim to the honor of being 
the first materializing medium arose among the 
friends of two mediums, each of whom claimed the 
distinction. These were Mary Andrews at the home 
of Morris Keeler in Moravia, N. Y., and Mary Eddy 
(Huntoon) at her home near Chittenden, Vt. It was 
never decided satisfactorily which of the two women 
first obtained materialization, but it is given out 
now. Mrs. Andrews and Mrs. Huntoon were sitting 
in their respective homes on the same night. At 9 
o'clock precisely there appeared in Mrs. Andrews' 
cabinet a tangible, visible face and bust of a spirit, 
and at 9.07 o'clock (the timepiece stopped at that 
figure) appeared a similar materialization in the 
cabinet of Mrs. Huntoon, the first recorded form 
materialization in modern times. Mrs. Andrews 
claimed the honor on the ground that the manifesta- 
tion occurred in her home seven minutes ahead of 
that at Mrs. Huntoon's. But in their discussions they 
did not, nor did any one else, note the fact that sun 
time prevailed then, and time being seven minutes 
faster in Chittenden than in Moravia the materializa- 
tions took place simultaneously. And in future if 
you hear of the "Mazie medium" you may know that 
the term was derived from the mysterious, mazy 
character of the manifestation, and not from the 
mediums, both of whom coincidently bore the name 
Mary. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 187 



SOUL, SPIRIT AND BODY. 

Abu Ishak. 

The soul is the life of the spirit, and when the 
spirit withdraws from the physical body the soul goes 
with it. Do not understand me to say that if the 
spirit withdraws, the ordinary functions of the body 
will necessarily cease. It is quite possible for you, 
the spirit, to depart from your mortal casement, and 
another spirit to enter and animate it. There are 
instances of the spirit of a human being withdraw- 
ing from its temporal habiliment and wandering 
about remote places while another spirit enters and 
occupies the vacated apartment. To a trained ob- 
server the substitution is apparent. The change of 
spirits in one body is met with in seances for material- 
ization. Frequently one materialized body will be 
made to serve several spirits in succession in mani- 
festing to friends present. In these cases the spirits 
who succeed the one who fashioned the body are 
each spared the expenditure of power necessary to 
build up successive ones. Sometimes a male spirit 
will appear in the body and robes in which but a 
moment previously a female had appeared. But the 
soul does not necessarily change, for soul is not 
a personality as is spirit, but is a life principle, a 
part of that God-life which permeates all things. 
Soul enters anywhere that life is, for it is life itself. 
It is that supreme quality, that quickening impulse, 
that quintessence of the exquisite essence of the in- 
spiration and thought and life of God transmitted 



188 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

instantaneously from God or the life principle 
through one mortal or spirit to another. This soul 
principle being God itself, is omnipresent, omniscient 
and omnipatient. It is inexhaustible and may be 
divided and subdivided ad libitum and ad infinitum, 
but only in the conceptualism of dividing the air 
about you — all bodies made may possess a part of 
it without destroying the whole, as all may breathe 
the air without stopping the supply. 

In the dizzy flights of stretched imagination might 
be conceived billions of millions of billions of people, 
during immeasurable lengths of time, drinking dry 
the fountain springs of the sea and the moisture in 
the atmosphere; or, of the air in the broad arena of 
the star-studded skies and in the endless wastes be- 
yond being breathed away during the eons approach- 
ing eternity, but soul cannot become exhausted. It 
is difficult to think of no end to time and space, but 
it is infinitely more difficult to think of an end to 
them. In your fancy you may stop the clock at your 
computed finish of time, and drive a stake at the end 
of space, but what after? Again into the farther 
on endless chasms you must plunge. And so must 
God, soul, reign the consciousness of thought — not 
of form like the spirit or its counterpart, the body, 
but of form only as the quick eye of perception 
builds for it. 

The Lord God formed man of the dust of the 
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life; and man became a living soul. — Genesis II, 7. 



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MUSIC. 

AUBER. 

According to the accepted terms of understanding, 
music is neither tasted, touched, smelled or seen. It 
belongs to the sense of hearing. Yet who can say 
that music is not felt, is not breathed into the lungs, 
is not a substitute for food, that when a rhapsody 
is played or a funeral dirge is given it is not abso- 
lutely seen? So in a way music comes into contact 
with the whole five senses. Does music affect the 
deaf? Ask deaf persons and they will tell you that 
while they do not hear, there is in the presence of 
music an inspiration which they clearly sense. Music, 
therefore, is one of the most potent effects on the 
senses of the world. Anything that tends to smooth, 
to heal abrasions, to unite wounded parts, to con- 
duce to adhesiveness, is grateful to the recipient. 

Music is a quality which unites soul elements 
that are inclined to become disassociated, those 
subtle, intricate soul principles which unite and 
build, and from which evolve the more tangible com- 
posites of a human body. 

The music sets in harmonious activity and adher- 
ence those little dissenting qualities of human soul 
principles gone astray from each other. These in 
turn reflect their associated conditions upon the 
grosser states of human consciousness and being, and 
the music becomes grateful to the senses, the ma- 
terial being deriving its benefit from those more subtle 
states or conditions. 



190 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

Harmonious combinations of the finer elements 
seem to make perfect men and women and children. 
They exhilarate their lives! Exhilaration is the ten- 
dency to rise, to ascend, to elevate to the more ethereal 
states, to graduate beyond the grosser states of ma- 
terial surroundings, such, for instance, as to migrate 
from the earth. The more sordid a thing is, the more 
content is it to be buried in the chrysalis state of 
its material environment, its unfolded state. 

Every activity of the life principles causes a more 
perfect being. 

The music instrument has nothing to do with it. 
The inspiration of the performer plays an unim- 
portant part. 

One and the same instrument can give forth con- 
cordant sounds which will cause either joy or grief, 
lightness or depression. These are physical emo- 
tions of which I do not speak. 

The effects of concordant sound waves on the soul 
centre and composite parts of the same show them- 
selves in the emotions of the physical form. 

With music the weary soldier can march better, 
with music the fearful will face death stoically. 

And the music of the spheres of our universe, the 
blending sounds of the plunging worlds emit a musi- 
cal hum, which, like the din of the tin pan beating 
concentrates the swarm of bees, accelerates the activ- 
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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 1. 

drinking facilities on railroad trains. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 

One of the most conspicuous abuses upon the pub- 
lic is the quasi-compliance of the railroad companies 
with the requirements of the sanitary commissions of 
the United States that public drinking cups or glasses 
be removed. As a means of promoting health the 
abandonment of the germ-collecting drinking glass 
in public places is no doubt an excellent one, but there 
is no good reason why a wealthy corporation should 
make the enforcement of this regulation a burden 
upon its patrons, the people who fill its money coffers. 

Beside the drinking urns in railroad stations are 
cabinets containing paper cups, one of which is ob- 
tainable by depositing a cent in the slot machine. On 
the trains are water tanks full of cold water, but no 
glass or vessel to obtain a drink with. In the ordinary 
coaches no glass is available, and a passenger who 
does not board a train provided with a cup of his 
own must make his journey in thirst. The Pullman 
coach has a porter, a black man dressed in uniform, 
who deftly manipulates the drinking apparatus under 
a penalty to each drinker of a tip. You request of 
him a drinking glass, you drink and return the glass 
to him. When you again are thirsty and request the 
glass, if you failed to tip him the first time, he puts 
you off with an excuse that he is "busy at present." 
After long delay he reluctantly supplies the glass. 
In the interim several others have used the same 



192 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

glass. If you have been observing you have noticed 
that it was placed away by the porter in a private 
hiding place after each drink without washing. 

To command the glass requires a payment of from 
ten to twenty-five cents in tips to the porter, and 
then you are drinking from a glass many others have 
used, and has undergone no cleansing whatever. The 
glass might as well be left on the water tank at the 
passenger's convenience. 

The tipping outrage is an evil permitted by the 
railroad companies perpetrated upon the traveling 
public. To be required to pay even one cent in a slot 
machine in the depot is an imposition. The failure 
to place the machines in the cars and allow patrons 
to be at the mercy of the pecuniary whims of a 
negro porter is another imposition. The railroad 
companies are made wealthy by the patronage of 
the public. They should be compelled to supply not 
only pure water, but sanitary drinking vessels free. 
The people, through the Interstate Commerce Com- 
mission, should appeal from this state of affairs and 
demand a change. Let a drink of water be accessible 
without recourse to a slot machine, or a ten-cent tip 
in the pocket of a servant of a great corporation. 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 193 



PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 2. 

FREE LUNCH COUNTERS AND SALOON GLASSES. 

William S. O'Brien. 

The health preserving department of the country, 
while devoting so much time to the branding of ob- 
scure and seldom used preparations of food materials 
shown by exhaustive analyses to be impure, should 
send examiners occasionally into the liquor saloons 
abounding in most of the precincts of every city. 
These places are daily patronized by large numbers 
of men of all ages, and the computed attendance 
upon all in the country must amount daily to an 
immense number of thousands of persons. 

Hence it is evident that any commonly existing un- 
sanitary conditions must be liable to communicate 
themselves with the populace to a very wide extent. 

With hardly an exception these saloons daily set 
up a free lunch, which continues for hours. It con- 
sists of several cooked food products set out in sepa- 
rate uncovered dishes for each article of food; for 
instance, one dish of baked beans, another of potato 
salad, another of sliced pig's head, and stews, boiled 
or baked macaroni, bolognas, etc. Standing on the 
counter is a glass two-thirds full of water, and in 
it two or three forks. Each visitor, and among them 
men who would not tolerate such practices in their 
own homes, before taking a drink, helps himself to a 
mouthful of free lunch. This is done by lifting one 
of the forks out of the glass, eating with it and re- 
placing it in the glass of water. Many men must 



194 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

use the same fork and partake from the same dish. 
The only ablution the fork receives is its standing 
bath in the partly filled glass. In the course of an 
hour the water in the glass becomes dirty to muddi- 
ness, and particles of food adhere to the forks, which 
have been in many mouths. As a microbe carrier, I 
know of nothing more successful. 

Beneath each drinking bar is a tank full of water. 
In this the glasses drunk from by the various and 
numerous customers are hurriedly given a swish after 
each drink and placed upside down on the bar to 
drain off the dirty water and become dry. This 
water in the tank soon becomes foul, but bartenders 
are usually too busy to refill them with clean water. 

As soon as the glasses are dry the microbe life 
becomes active and dangerous. I know that these 
conditions prevail because I conducted a restaurant 
in San Francisco and I was familiar with the saloon 
habits. These statements will be borne out by any 
man who steps inside of a liquor saloon to-day. 

The attention of the Board of Health is invited 
to these germ-spreading conditions. 



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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 3. 

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS AND FERRY BOAT PILOTS. 

Mathias W. Baldwin. 

This is an age of railroad and steamboat travel. 
Thousands of men, women and children are hourly 
traversing the globe by these means of transportation. 
Do you know much about a locomotive engine? Did 
you ever examine its construction and contemplate 
what a mere trifle of an act or a neglect of an act 
could throw it out of commission or cause its wreck 
and destruction? Enginemen are human beings, sub- 
ject to the frailties and mistakes and mishaps which 
beset other people. A train of many cars carrying 
hundreds of passengers pulls out of a depot under 
the sole manipulation of one man — the engineer. Dan- 
gerous rates of speed are maintained under disad- 
vantages of darkness and storms, over ravines, 
bridges, embankments, etc., and the lives and safety 
of hundreds of passengers are in the exclusive care 
of one man. (The usual attendant, the fireman, is 
often located in another compartment of the cab of 
the ponderous and powerful locomotive of the present 
day.) Sudden death by apoplexy, heart disease or 
other causes, quickly precipitated aberrations of 
the mind, a moment of sleep, might overtake this 
single man at the throttle in a critical instant when 
the mechanism of his engine should be reversed, or 
a signal observed, to avoid the consequent injury or 



196 SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 

death of hundreds of human beings. It is wrong to 
place so many lives and so much property in the 
care of one man, for however efficient he may be he is 
liable at any moment to a myriad of unlooked-for 
mishaps. The railroad companies are amply able to 
place two engineers in the cab of every train loco- 
motive, so that in the event of accident to one there 
will be another to take the throttle at an instant's 
notice. 

The second man should not be continuously on one 
train, but should be detailed alternately on periods 
of day duty and night duty, and should be empow- 
ered to make suggestions to the engineer in command 
in the matter of managing his engine. An engineer 
who makes periodical runs for continuous years over 
one line becomes naturally careless of many little 
details. This should come under the notice of and 
be corrected by the extra man. 

Every pilot house of ferry boats conveying large 
numbers of people across rivers should contain two 
pilots. Some years ago a New York Fulton Ferry 
boat pilot died at his post while crossing the East 
River. With his dead hands fixed on the wheel the 
boat plunged at full speed into the dock knocking 
down passengers and creating consternation and 
panic. Collision in the river with other boats was 
miraculously averted. Fortunately no one was seri- 
ously hurt. So great was the public fear that the 
Fulton Ferry Company assigned two pilots to each 
wheel house. In time the incident was forgotten gen- 
erally and the extra pilot was withdrawn. 

The revenue of the railroad and river boat com- 
panies in all sections of the country is sufficient to 



SCIENTIFIC PROOFS OF ANOTHER LIFE 197 

amply enable them to give reasonable protection to 
their thousands of patrons. If they will not do it 
of their own accord the Legislature should be ap- 
pealed to by the people to enact laws enforcing it. 
We call upon the Legislature at Albany to enact at 
once such a law for the great Empire State of the 
Union. It cannot be too quickly done. 



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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 4. 

Tipping. 

Russell Sage. 

The proprietors and managers of hotels no longer 
supply the guests with clean table linen and polite 
attendance. The waiters assume absolute control of 
such matters. If you desire to sit at a table with 
a spotless cloth and receive your food properly 
cooked and courteously served you may have your 
silent prayer granted at the first visit, but never 
again unless you have paid the waiter on the first 
occasion. Your glass may not be refilled with water, 
your napkin may not be a tidy one, and your food 
may not be served even warm unless the waiter 
secures a contribution from you. You pay the hotel 
proprietor a good price for accommodations. He 
should see to it that you have them without subject- 
ing you to an extra fee to the man who is already 
presumed to be paid to serve you. A person can 
barely obtain civil attention in a restaurant, in a 
dining car, in the hotel lavatories, without a tip to 
the man who is supposed to extend courtesies. 

A man cannot get a proper shave in a barber shop 
unless he is known to be a tipper, or the barber has 
hopes of adding him to his list of tipping customers. 

In hotel dining rooms so largely has this tipping 
evil spread that now the head-waiters, who do not 
personally serve you, demand periodical tips. And 
hotel proprietors know of the practices and encour- 
age them because they can get men to work for them 
at nominal amounts of wage. 



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A waiter does not apply for "a job" for the pay 
he shall receive from the proprietor, but for the larger 
daily income from his customer's tips. 

It is now in order for railroad conductors to de- 
mand tips for their services in punching your trip 
tickets, and for engineers and firemen and track- 
walkers to do likewise for the safe running of trains. 

The Emerson and Crawford shoe companies have 
opened in connection with their sales stores in many 
cities free shoe blacking stands, where bootblacks are 
stationed to dress free of charge shoes purchased from 
their establishments. A conspicuous sign on the wall 
of each location reads : 

"The man who accepts a tip will be dismissed." 

This is a move in the right direction and one which 
might well be emulated in the dining rooms, parlor 
cars, barber shops and other places throughout the 
country. 

Patrons of public commodities pay good round 
sums for the accommodations they get. The proprie- 
tors of these places should remunerate their work- 
men sufficiently to lift from guests the burden of pay- 
ing these salaries in the form of tips. 

The tipping requirement is an obnoxious outrage 
on a too patient public. 



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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 5. 

SIDE-DOOR RAILWAY CARS. 

Valentine Mott, M. D., LL. D. 

From time immemorial one of the best injunctions 
for the preservation of health has been, Avoid 
Draughts. 

Sudden puffs of cold air, and often damp air, upon 
a person who is warm or over-warm, is a most dan- 
ger-to-health experience. This is what the people of 
the cities are being treated to every day and every 
night in the cars of the elevated and surface street 
railway cars. In many instances people have hur- 
ried to the car lines and so become overheated. A 
seat in the car is secured and at every stop and be- 
fore each stop is made, the end doors of the cars are 
thrown open and a gust of cold wind sweeps through 
the car its full length, striking every passenger 
within. 

This occurs many times on a trip up or down 
town, chilling to the marrow the exposed inmates. It 
is both discomforting and dangerous. How many 
cases of sore throat, rheumatism, pneumonia and 
other complaints, resulting in suffering and death, 
are traceable to this cause would be difficult to esti- 
mate. 

The latest model of a street car and an elevated 
railroad car should be one with large doors on the 
sides and none to be used at either end. 



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In these days of modern sanitary measures the old 
death-dealing devices should be dislimned. 

Let human life be prolonged as far as possible. 
The complete development of the spirit depends much 
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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 6. 

THE WEATHER BUREAU. 

William B. Hazen. 

I do not know of a more useless expenditure of the 
peoples' money than in the maintenance of the United 
States Weather Bureau Department at Washington, 
D. C, and its branches throughout the country. The 
object of its establishment has not been attained, and 
its efforts have largely proven failures. It is seldom 
that the Bureau prognosticates correctly, and in those 
few and far-between instances mostly by accident. 

If it surmises — and that seems to be an appropriate 
term — the advent of a storm, it frequently errs as to 
the time of its arrival, and if it surmises the time 
rightly, it mistakes the nature and severity of the 
storm. Of how much value is a weather report read- 
ing: For Eastern Ohio much colder w T ith rain or 
snow on Tuesday, if it all does not come until Wednes- 
day, and Tuesday proves to be a fair warm day? 

Of what real good is such an uncertain report as 
"rain or snow," except to show how little the Bureau 
knows about the weather? 

If a physician should diagnose his patient's illness 
as tuberculosis or toothache, we would feel his medi- 
cal education had been a failure. 

If a clergyman should notify one of his parishioners 
that he was going to heaven or hell, he would feel that 
the divine prophet had not earned his salary. The 
man would not know whether to start on his journey 
with an overcoat and furs, or a summer suit. 



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A false weather deduction could work much harm, 
for instance : The Weather Bureau announces that at 
midnight the weather will become clear and cold. 
Going out you leave your over-shoes and umbrella, 
and put on a sweater and heavy overcoat to meet 
the sudden change on returning home. Instead the 
weather not only continues uncomfortably warm, but 
a heavy rain falls. You are overheated in your extra 
wraps, and your clothing and feet are thoroughly wet. 
What may not be your condition of health next day? 

Another example: "Continued clear and cold." 
Three delicate children of a careful but very ner- 
vous mother go with a nurse to the Sunday School 
exhibition in the village church. They are well 
wrapped in warm clothing. At 9 o'clock the tem- 
perature moderates and a heavy fall of rain sets in. 
The anxious mother oft repeats her look out of the 
window at the leaden sky and the storm until she is 
wrought to a nervous fever over the thought that her 
little ones, not robust, must tramp wet and muddy 
streets through a heavy rain to reach home. On the 
following day comes the fair cold weather predicted 
for that night, but the children are in bed being doc- 
tored for colds, and the mother is taking bromide for 
her nerves. How easy it is to go a step farther and 
see one of the children seriously ill or even worse, and 
death may be laid at the door of the Weather 
Bureau. 

Many uninformed persons fancy that the weather 
report emanates entirely from study of the barometer 
and observation of stellar conditions by learned ex- 
perts, whereas quite the opposite is the fact. 

A station in Omaha telegraphs Chicago that a 
snow storm has been raging there. Chicago tele- 
graphs Washington that the first indications of the 
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Washington calculates the rapidity with which the 
storm is moving and estimates when it will strike 
New York. A bulletin is issued: 

"Blizzard from the West by morning. Heavy 
snow." 

The morning arrives clear and bright. The storm 
did not continue its rapid gait. Instead of a blizzard 
it reaches New York a rain storm one day tardy. The 
Weather Bureau men came about as near the facts as 
did the astronomer, who looking through his tele- 
scope mistook a speck on the glass for a new and 
mighty cavern in the sun. His deductions were quite 
as valuable a contribution of science as those of the 
Department of Weather at Washington. 

Their observation glasses need brushing off. 







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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 7. 

undesirable picture advertising. 

Clara Barton. 

During the latter part of 1897 and the early spring 
preceding the Spanish-American war in 1898, there 
were exhibited in public windows and other conspicu- 
ous places a variety of photographs said to have been 
made of starving, emaciated, disease-stricken men, 
women and children, depicting the sufferings of our 
neighbors in Cuba under Spanish rule. The pictures 
attracted extensive attention and created widespread 
sympathy among the citizens of the United States, 
for were they not photographs of actual conditions? 
Long endured patience and slumbering indignation 
toward the Spanish misrule of our little outlying 
island of Cuba, only comparatively a stone's throw 
from the shores of the Florida Keys, had awakened 
a subtle demand in every American human heart that 
cruel Spanish sovereignty be ended over on the little 
strip of land in the sea whose proximity to our shores 
made it inherently a part of our domain. The pic- 
tures were an important factor in the precipitation 
of the war in 1898. They were placards of a horrible 
condition ever before the eyes of the people, training 
the minds in a certain line of thought, and once 
thoughts become united consonant activity inevitably 
follows. After the war the pictures were found to 
be misrepresentations so far as they related to condi- 
tions existing in Cuba. They were photographs of 
suffering people in remote foreign sections of the 



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world, and were an exaggerated suggestion of what 
might be the state of affairs in the island of Cuba. 

Though good to a small nation undoubtedly re- 
sulted from the brief conflict between America and 
Spain, the false picture placard means of evolving a 
state of warfare was unfair, unjust and unwholesome. 

Ait the present day a largely advertised accident 
insurance company is placing in the public prints 
harrowing pictures of women and children said to 
illustrate the forlorn, destitute and dreadful condi- 
tion they found themselves in, whose husbands unin- 
sured had been killed in railroad and other accidents. 
A train of derailed cars and crushed passengers, and 
a mother, haggard and destitute, leading children 
with sorrowful faces, are pictured, representing the 
despair of families because of the neglect of hus- 
bands and fathers to take out accident insurance 
policies. It is obvious to any person that these pic- 
tures are made for the explicit purpose of creating 
fear in men's minds as to their safety in traveling, 
and to induce financial revenue to the underwriters 
of insurance policies. It is evident that the pictures 
were made with sinister motives, for they could not 
have been taken during an unanticipated accident re- 
vealing the destruction of a railroad train, before 
the sense of an unremedial loss had overtaken the 
widow and mother. 

Those are not desirable methods of advertising an 
otherwise commendable business which play upon 
the fears, passions and depressions of the community 
for commercial gain. Such intrigues do not have a 
healthy tendency toward the uplift of humanity. 









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PUBLIC ABUSE AETICLES— NO. 8. 

false detention. 

Deborah Eeed Franklin 
(Mrs. Benjamin Franklin.) 

A man or woman who is falsely imprisoned should, 
when it is discovered, have every recompense pos- 
sible accorded. A man is arrested sometimes on the 
merest suspicion of being the perpetrator of a crime, 
a bevy of detectives, whose professional aim in life 
is to pose before the public as discoverers of crime, 
weave out of falsehood and misrepresentation a fabric 
of circumstantial evidence. A district attorney, 
usually an able orator and anxious for commendation 
as a successful prosecuting attorney, by the force 
and eloquence of his speech, influences the jurymen, 
and the victim is railroaded to the penitentiary, in 
many instances an innocent man. Sometimes years 
of imprisonment, suffering, and ruined good name and 
character follow, when finally positive proof is forth- 
coming that the imprisoned man is innocent. Then 
the Governor "pardons" him, and he is told to walk 
forth a free man and to rejoice. But is he free? His 
reputation is destroyed, his business wrecked, and 
he is in social ostracism. The very word "pardon" 
has become synonymous with guilt. "Pardon" car- 
ries with it an intimation of crime forgiven, guilt con- 
doned. This is all wrong. The Governor should never 
"pardon" an innocent person. He should "honorably 
release" and as publicly as possible commend to the 
good will and favor of the world. The State that 



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through its paid minions of the government causes a 
man or woman unjust imprisonment, suffering and 
loss, should compensate him or her to the fullest 
extent commensurate with the injury, whether it be 
in the sum of five, or five hundred thousand dollars. 

The Constitution of the United States provides 
that "All men are entitled to life, liberty and the pur- 
suit of happiness." 



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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 9. 

unnecessary inconveniences. 

Peter Cooper. 

Acts of bravery and heroism whenever performed 
merit kindly recognition. A man or a woman, or sets 
of men or women, who hazard their own lives in 
either successful or unsuccessful efforts to save the 
lives and property of others deserve to be highly 
commended. But there are proper times and ways 
for them to receive the laudation of their admirers, 
and it should come spontaneously from the grateful 
public. It should not be invited on unsuitable occa- 
sions directly by the benefactors. 

I refer especially to the Fire Department. The 
remarkable quickness with which firemen and appa- 
ratus arrive at the scene of conflagration reveals the 
efficiency of the firemen and the instant willing co- 
operation of the public. The duties of the fireman 
are arduous and beset with dangers, and his risk 
to limb and life is very great. When the engine bells 
are ringing and whistles are sounding and spirited 
horses are prancing in their mad dash to a fire, we 
are all glad to stand back, street cars and trucks and 
carriages halt, and all traffic comes to a standstill to 
give the fire fighters, the engines and the hook and 
ladder wagons an unobstructed road. 

But when the alarm is a false one, or when the fire 
is ended, there is no earthly reason why the return 
homeward should be made with dangerous speed and 
amid clanging bells and loud whistling, especially in 



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the dead hours of the night when the streets are prac- 
tically vacated. 

This condition of affairs is frequently conspicuous 
in New York and other cities among certain divisions 
of the Fire Department. The men would seem to 
want to pose as martyrs or heroes at an inopportune 
time and in a way establishing much inconvenience 
to others. This clang and clatter in the middle of 
the night awakens the sleeping and alarms the sick, 
while in the busy hours of the day or evening it 
necessitates unnecessary stopping of street cars, be- 
lates passengers in making steam railroad depots or 
reaching other points of importance. 

The firemen are unquestionably a brave class of 
fellows, and we cannot extol their sterling worth too 
highly provided we do it at the proper time and in 
a becoming way. A medal for bravery, or a statue 
to perpetuate the memory of many a noble man is 
commendable, but the men themselves should not cast 
the medals nor chisel the monuments. Let the 
authorities and the admiring public do these. Fire- 
works and a furore are excusable before a conflagra- 
tion but are unnecessary after it. 







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PUBLIC ABUSE ARTICLES— NO. 10. 

James Gordon Bennett. 

all eyes do not see alike. 

Some time ago an ordinance went into effect in 
New York and a few other cities forbidding newsboys 
calling out the sale of newspapers on Sunday. The 
measure was instituted by a few ecclesiastical de- 
votees on the ground that the crying out of the news- 
boys was a hindrance to divine worship. It might, on 
the opposite side, have been consistently argued that 
divine worship was a hindrance to the circulating of 
newspapers. The Constitution of the United States 
provides that no system of religion shall usurp the 
legitimate rights and liberties of the people. 

Now we have another aspect of the newspaper busi- 
ness. Some unusual or unexpected event occurs. 
Intelligence reaches the newspaper offce of a ship- 
wreck or a railroad accident, or the decease of some 
noted person. The publishers see a chance to make 
money out of it by issuing an extra, which is given to 
the newsboys perhaps at a middle of the night hour, 
and soon the city streets uptown, downtown, cross- 
town and all over town, are alive with the howls of 
the newspaper venders. Sleeping people are aroused, 
sick people are exorcised, immediately concerned peo- 
ple are alarmed, and all at an unnecessary hour of 
the night when repose is essential. Even those im- 
mediately interested could avail nothing from the 
midnight apprisal, and there is no reason why per- 
sons unconcerned could not just as well wait the 



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arrival of the regular morning edition of the paper 
for the news. There is nothing gained by this howl- 
ing in the streets at midnight except the dollars 
turned into the publishers of the extra sheets. This 
newsboy shouting is as great an annoyance to the 
common people who labor all day and need rest at 
night, as is the Sunday selling to the sanctified saints 
who sit on cushioned seats of a Sabbath morning and 
howl Amen ! 

More noticeably so in towns and small cities, street 
hucksters hawk their wares through the streets in 
the early hours of the morning with more discordant 
sound than the mingled toots of fog horns on the 
docks of a maritime settlement on a misty day. Who 
gives one set absolute authority to compel another 
set to submit to its mastership? It seems to me I 
have a faint recollection of hearing at some time and 
somewhere of a man with a name sounding like Lin- 
coln abolishing slavery forever in the United States. 
I wonder whether I dreamed it. 

Occasionally a discordant individual, to spite his 
adjoining neighbor, has been known to erect a high 
fence or wall on his own property in such a way as 
to shut off the outward view of his next door resi- 
dent. The courts of the land have invariably ordered 
the removal of the obstruction on the theory that one 
man shall not commit what is an absolute nuisance 
to another. If a man desired to get a glimpse of 
the clergyman delivering a sermon in church, or to 
see through a car window the street and number he 
was passing, it was an absolute impossibility when 
the women's hats of 1912-13 intervened. By the same 
kind of authority a man obstructs another's outlook 
with a fence, a milliner in Paris obstructs the view 
of the whole American nation. A person who carries 
about him a revolver, or a penknife whose blade ex- 



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ceeds four inches in length, commits a misdemeanor, 
and the penalty is fine or imprisonment. But women 
traverse the streets and travel in public conveyances 
with projecting hatpin points menacing the eyesight, 
not to say anything of the minor scratches and cuts, 
of every one within a reasonable radius of these 
vicious weapons. The Massachusetts, New Jersey and 
other legislatures of the United States, and the Ber- 
lin government abroad, have made it an offense 
against the law to wear unguarded hatpins. And 
yet women want to vote on legislation. When they 
do, farewell to the Massachusetts and New Jersey 
ordinances. 



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ADIEU. 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse. 

I am lifting my pen just to write ADIEU. Adieu 
to the army of talented warriors who within the past 
twelve months have marched this way in the resplen- 
dent armour of literary genius; adieu to the tender, 
gentle associations formed night after night with the 
working band — the silent writers ; adieu to the pleas- 
ant scenes and the earnest efforts which have been for 
the creation of this most remarkably produced 
volume of any age. Indeed, in this moment of retro- 
spection a quick tear moistens my eye, but the prod- 
uct of the work in its glory and beauty as quickly 
dries it away. 

In the great march of time and things it is adieu 
all the while. The old horse cars have almost entirely 
vanished; the buildings that were new in our young 
days are being torn away; the quaint dress and the 
dignified geniality of manner of the men and women 
of the old school of things are missing; the names of 
illustrious people whose words of wisdom and deeds 
of worth vitalized our youth-time hopes, and whose 
presence was an inspiration to our young lives, now 
are heard in the echoes of the past, or are seen in 
letters on memorial tablets, or rising in the everlast- 
ing achievements of their genius and power. 

When a boy I walked the lower Broadway of New 
York City, the Astor House was a tremendous hotel 
situated prominently in the suburbs of the town. To- 
day dwarfed and obscured under the shadow of the 



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highest building in the world, it nestles at the base 
of the Woolworth structure like a mushroom under 
an apple tree. The City Hall, then magnificent and 
artistic in its loneliness and stateliness, to-day almost 
lost in the jumble of great pyramids about it, is, in 
its yellowed age, like a miniature on ivory hung in 
a gallery of immense pictures. 

Adieu to the changes of the outside world, to the 
loftiness of the spires of Trinity and St. Paul's, to 
the rustic rambles of Battery Park and the seques- 
tered gardens of Bowery Lane; adieu to past condi- 
tions; adieu to the sublime spiritual associations of 
this sacred room, to the interesting experiments which 
have evolved this work ; adieu to the bright galaxy of 
spirits whose illustrious names adorn these pages. 
And adieu for a time to my friend and benefactor, 
whose earth-time efforts positively made my inven- 
tion of national value and importance by making it 
international in its usefulness, the friend who has 
been with me throughout these sessions, silently sus- 
taining me with the love and interest which have 
abided in him for this book. I mean the immortal 
Cyrus W. Field. Adieu ! Adieu ! 

"This is truth the poet sings, 

That a sorrow's crown of sorrows 
Is remembering happier things." 





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COMPENDIUM. 
William T. Stead. 

The gems of thought from the world of spirits given 
in this book well merit the embalmment in printer's 
ink which they have received. No volume compiled 
in any age of the world equals in uniqueness this 
one, from the fact that the literary work of it was 
done absolutely independently by spirits. No mortal 
hand performed any part of it beyond the mere plac- 
ing of it in type and in book form. Each article was 
written by a different spirit, and every detail of it 
was gone over by the spirits from the minute placing 
of a comma to full directions for the publication 
work. 

In many ages of the world various literary produc- 
tions have been the result of spirit inspiration, but 
in every instance but two the mortal hand has been 
used as the amanuensis of the inspiration which has 
quickened the brain. Those two instances are the 
Ten Commandments written independently for Moses 
on Mount Sinai, and this present work. The former 
was merely a tablet of laws, not a book, and hence 
this is the only one ever so given and published in 
the history of time. The two great epics, the Iliad 
and the Odyssey, and the epigrams of Homer, were 
clearly the result of a high quality of inspiration, 
but the real spirit authors could present them only 
through the automaton hand of the earthly writer. 
The writings that would deliver Servetus from re- 
ligious thraldom, and the later psychoponnychia by 



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John Calvin were written by his hand, but the source 
of the inspiration was far beyond him. The "Pil- 
grim's Progress," by John Bunyon, the most popular 
religious writer in the English language, was writ- 
ten by a man's hand, for the spirit who inspired it 
had not the condition to present it independently. 
The pen in John Wesley's hand in 1730 founded 
Methodism, but who shall say the movement was not 
made by advanced and liberal spirits who could not 
physically write their ideas? The imagery which 
filled Hawthorne's brain ran out at his fingers ends 
through a pen when his mortal hand indited "Twice 
Told Tales," and the rhythmic measure which filled 
the mentalities of the poet laureate of England, and 
the immortal American bards, Bryant and Whittier 
and Longfellow, and others equally inspired but less 
widely famous, was of a higher type than the men 
who expressed these. But our book, this diadem of 
thought gems, was created absolutely by spirit 
power independently of mortal organism. I will 
briefly review the essays contained in this volume. 

Greeting, by Frank Leslie, is a happy welcome to 
the authors whose articles grace these pages. It is 
happily written, introducing as it does the names 
of nearly all the contributors. 

The Human Soul, by Phoebe Cary, is a poem re- 
lating to a theory upheld by a large proportion of the 
people of the world, and one expounded extensively 
by Swedenborg, that in the beginning of creation, a 
man and woman were unipersonal; that both the 
male and female elements must conjoin to be a com- 
plete personality; that through some remote cross 
in nature this condition became dual in its character- 
formation, and the distinct male and female sexes 
resulted; that the original creation being so divided, 
each half became the soul-mate of the other, and we 



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are going through life but half a perfect being, and 
in the ultimate of life the two halves belonging to- 
gether will rejoin and become again unipersonal. 

The Immutability of God's Laws, by Joan D'Arc, 
the intrepid girl general, who has been able to wrestle 
with both the laws of man and the laws of God, re- 
veals the changeless conditions of nature, and shows 
us that all the evolutions attained in the ages are not 
new; that the discovery and invention reaching up 
from primeval times to the present day reveal or 
make nothing new. Later day progress is merely an 
application of latent energies which were always cap- 
able of the quickening we see to-day, and that the 
laws they are applied to are those which have for- 
ever existed. It is a verification of the saying : "There 
is nothing new under the sun." 

We are wont to speak of America as the new world, 
but Virginia Dare reminds us in her article, The 
First White Person Born in America, that all sides 
of the round globe came into existence at the same 
time, and that the part America occupies was in ex- 
istence contemporaneously with those parts occupied 
by other countries, hence one part of it is not newer 
than any other part. Virginia holds the optimistic 
view that things are no worse in one age of the world 
than in another, for she got along just as well and 
was quite as happy and contented when the world 
was devoid of many of the accomplishments and in- 
ventions and discoveries as do people now who pos- 
sess all the later developments. She would teach us 
the useful lesson that not physical acquirements and 
possessions, but a contented mind and peaceful 
thoughts are conducive to our greatest happiness. 

The Power of Thought, by Fanny Fern (wife of 
James Parton, and sister of the illustrious N. P. 
Willis) tells us that our thoughts are superior to our 



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surroundings; that the embellishments which man 
adds to the creation of nature play an insignificant 
part in the inspiration of the real soul. She tells us 
that it is not the mighty roar of a Niagara, or the 
peal of thunder and the flash of lightning, or the 
majesty of a mountain, or the symmetry and adorn- 
ment of the meadow and the garden and the grove, 
that lift the soul in aspiration to God, but that it 
is the thought of these which does it. 

The Evolution of the Human Race cannot fail 
to show those who pass lightly upon the worth of 
their mothers how unappreciatively they speak or 
reflect. William E. Channing deserves the kindly 
thought of every mother in the land for his beautiful 
tribute to their importance and power. 

White Lies, is the euphemistic phrase indulged 
in by the sweet song writer of Pittsburgh, Stephen 
Collins Foster. He aims to show that a slight devia- 
tion from a statement of facts is occasionally ex- 
cusable when no harm, and great good is done or 
happiness augmented. 

Incidents in the Life of George Washington, in- 
form our readers of several interesting facts concern- 
ing General George Washington heretofore unpub- 
lished and unknown. 

Real Life in the Dreamland, illustrates the re- 
markable opinion of Lydia Huntley Sigourney that 
many times what we regard as dreams is the actual 
experience of the spirit temporarily out of the body, 
and that thoughts are more real than apparent actual 
things, for the objective creations are but fading, 
perishing copies of the real, the thought. 

David Crockett in Jottings by the Wayside eluci- 
dates the extreme selfishness of man and woman- 
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Theodosia Burr Alston, the beloved daughter of 
Aaron Burr of Bevolutionary War fame tells in The 
Tragedy of 1813 the true facts of her fate which 
has been clouded in mystery for a hundred years. 

Etherealization, is the title of Jules Simon's 
essay. He explains to us that anything visible to 
the physical eye is material, that the eye does not 
see anything ethereal. His analysis is worthy of 
careful reading. 

The venerable Pontius Pilate tells of The Cruci- 
fixion of the Nazarene. The world to-day believes 
that Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross in the slow 
process of crucifixion, but Pontius Pilate states that 
the heart of Jesus cracked, the walls broke, and death 
resulted within a few hours, whereas had the cruci- 
fixion itself caused his decease he would have prob- 
ably hung to the cross for several days ere life de- 
parted. He died from mental instead of physical suf- 
fering. It appears that Jesus was nailed to the cross 
before it was placed upright in the ground. 

Phocion in Dr. Thomas introduces to the world an 
old and famous character under a new appellation. 
No one in the mortal form to-day knows that Dr. 
Thomas and "Doubting Thomas" were one and the 
same person. 

Bandom Thoughts, portrays a few practical ideas 
in President A. Lincoln's characteristic manner. 

One day Charles Dickens wrote a Christmas story 
in which a little boy had anything he wished for, but 
as fast as he had one wish granted the one previously 
granted fled from him. It was designed to illustrate 
the fact that we could not possess all the heart de- 
sired at one time. That sorely afflicted writer, Eliza- 
beth Barrett Browning, in her Begrets of Gradual 
Progression, shows that we must accept the inevit- 



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able mandates of progress and be content with the 
blessings loaned us in each period of life. 

Elizabeth Wright Menafee was a young woman 
of marked organizing abilities. She founded an in : 
dustrial school in South Carolina, which is prosper- 
ing still. In her superb article on Education she 
illustrates how education to be complete must be 
gathered gradually. It is the small beginnings which 
make the great endings of life, both in the physical 
and the spiritual environments. 

Those who do not learn it from the Falling 
Worlds of the Universe, by the great astronomer, 
Edmund Halley, will not know why the weather and 
the temperature are not always the same on corre- 
sponding dates and seasons of years. 

The Power of Mind, by Franz Anton Mesmer, is 
an interesting article on the power of mind over mat- 
ter, not only governing bodily movements, but its 
potency in removing bodily ailments. 

The first instance recorded in history of indepen- 
dent spirit writing is that of the writing of the Ten 
Commandments on Mount Sinai. The command- 
ments are the base of all the laws enacted for the 
good of society in all civilized countries on the globe. 

The great political differences which so seriously 
stirred the French Empire, the Kingdom of Italy 
and the Eoman Hierarchy, were the subject of heated 
discussions in all sections of the world in the '60s. 
For the first time since the demise of Napoleon and 
Garibaldi these two noted commanders express their 
opinions as maintained in spirit existence. Their 
views from the spirit side of life are interestingly 
given in The Fate of Italy and the Fall of the 
French Empire, and France and the Italian 
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Herbert Spencer in The Dread of Death illus- 
trates clearly that every living thing has a conscious- 
ness of physical death, and anything conscious of 
physical death has a spirit. The impulse of the spirit 
ever is to resist death and to protect and prolong life. 

Daoud in The Law of Parentage touches dis- 
tinctly on the remarkable theory of reincarnation, 
and announces as a fact that each individual has a 
soul mother and father, who remain such through 
all the subsequent incarnations and changes of per- 
sonality, revealing, if anything, the astounding fact 
that though we may resume mortal life after remote 
periods of intermission, and appear as different per- 
sonalities, the soul remains forever the same. 

"Let us have peace," was the world-known motto 
of General U. S. Grant, who though a powerful war- 
rior was such only that inharmony and deadly con- 
flict be crushed out and forgotten. The General was 
a lover of peacefulness and quietude, and now he 
does not approve of perpetuating sad memories of 
the Civil War. He thinks that war statues keep alive 
the rankling spirit of hatred and revenge, both North 
and South. He says so in his III Effects of War 
Statues. 

Susan B. Anthony holds the thought that present 
operations of mental processes affect the coming gen- 
erations through prenatal influence, and that the 
people of the country must be born into or with 
the freedom thought of the present few to evolve a 
general freedom for women, that what people now 
think will become an integral condition of the genera- 
tions of the future. 

Charles Darwin's master mind sweeps from the 
dreamy past on to the hazy future and notes that all 
events always have been, are and always will be re- 
curring; that everything in existence is a repetition 



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of what was, and in the future shall be a repetition 
of what has been and now is. 

Church and State, by Benjamin Disraeli illus- 
trates that a man in spirit life may change his mortal 
life views entirely, as he seemed to do. 

Theodore Parker says Heaven is Within; that 
happiness and contentment do not come to us from 
without; that the source of these is within a man's 
being, and he may not look without for it. 

Omohondro exhibits the fact that we exist in wave 
periods, that what we have in the way of inventions 
and discoveries was as possible a hundred or a thou- 
sand years previously, but the waves did not touch 
the thinkers as they happen to touch us now. The 
man's mind who invents a fire escape from the five- 
story building may be as great as that of the man who 
will discover a stairway from earth to the moon. 

Ole Bull informs us that a violin has the demolish- 
ing capabilities of the earthquake and the tornado, 
only that it performs its work of this nature in a 
more insidious way. 

Baphael Santi portrays that the hand of the artist 
can transport us to foreign climes and distant friends 
as readily as the railroad, the steamboat or the air- 
ship. 

That exquisite writer, Louisa May Olcott, tells us 
that in sleep we may live over again the scenes and 
incidents of years ago. Her essay on Sleep is a beau- 
tiful production. 

The most remarkable Composite Picture I have 
ever looked upon is the one of men's minds, photo- 
graphed in the article by Martha Jefferson Eandolph. 

Even the brain of an Edison may well pale before 
the revelations concerning the multitudinous records 
every sound in the universe is making on everything 
about us, portrayed by Joseph Eodes Buchanan, the 



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New York man of note who discovered the science of 
psychometry. 

Reincarnation is a much mooted question among 
all classes of minds. Lucretia Mott, the able Quaker- 
ess, is a strong advocate of its claims, and she es- 
pouses them ably in her article. 

Who knows the origin of the use of the Great 
Red Cross in connection with the Red Cross So- 
ciety? Eugenie, Empress of the French, tells it. 

Is Inspiration Insanity? Dean Swift states that 
nearly all inspired persons have been characterized 
as crazy people. 

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that staunch and true co- 
worker with Susan B. Anthony for Woman Suffrage, 
shows in her article, Things Not Always What 
They Seem, that "one man's meat is another man's 
poison." 

Mary, the mother of Washington, believes that all 
creatures made by God are equal in His sight. Re- 
flections in a Cemetery pictures her views. 

B. P. Shillaber writes Mrs. Partington's Visit to 
Washington and Albany. It shows his inimitable 
style of humor. Only Mr. Shillaber could have writ- 
ten this in the vein of humor he gives it in. 

The article by Kwo P'oh is a greeting and an assur- 
ance in the Chinese writing. 

The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was more than the 
distinguished Brooklyn preacher; he was a man of 
the world for the whole world. In his article he 
points out the impossibility of spirit reaching its nat- 
ural sphere as long as it is environed by matter, and 
that death, instead of enslaving us sets us free. Dion 
Boucicault, the eminent actor, tells us that the stage 
is the great object teacher of the world, that more 
good is accomplished by an object lesson than by all 
the sermons ever preached from the pulpits of the 



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land. In 1857 an interesting correspondence was car- 
ried on in The New York Times between Mr. Beecher 
and Mr. Boucicault relative to the good and evil ef- 
fects of the church and the theatre, in the course of 
which Mr. Boucicault remarked that according to po- 
lice records there was more crime and debauchery 
committed on Sunday than on any other day of the 
week, but he would not be uncharitable enough to be- 
lieve it was owing to the fact that the theatres were 
closed on that day, and Mr. Beecher's and other 
churches were open. 

Prof. Henry Kiddle was Superintendent of the New 
York Public Schools. How eminently the great man's 
mind was beyond anything taught in the schools of 
which he was the head is shown by his article No 
Matter — All Spirit. His deductions reveal the re- 
markable fact that there is really no such thing in 
existence as substance. 

Sir Isaac Newton's name will live forever. His 
wonderful discoveries of the past were not more as- 
tounding than the fulfillment will be of the prophecies 
of the future he makes in his interesting article. 

Margaret Fuller D'Ossoli pictures the amazing 
powers of the mind. In fact, she makes it very plain 
that everything material is constructed by the mind, 
that everything is the outcome of and is mind, bear- 
ing out on other lines by reasoning Prof. Kiddle's as- 
sumption that there is no material in the true sense 
of the term. 

Leon Tolstoy, in his Visions of the Future, tells 
us that through the evolutionary laws of the universe 
perfection will be reached. 

Georges Sand follows up Leon Tolstoy's thought 
by making harmony an important, yes, essential fac- 
tor in the work of advancement. 



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Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the martyred President, 
gives us a touching lesson in Look For the Light 
Where It Should Be. When things are dark and 
the soul is depressed, and the way seems fettered, do 
not look for relief expecting to find it in these dark 
conditions or in the conditions which evolved the 
troubles, but look ahead, upward and onward to the 
sunrise which these night-time of affairs will herald. 
You will find relief coming from beyond the trials of 
the present. And the hope of the future sustains us 
in the despair of the present. 

Daniel Webster, in his powerful article, makes in^ 
tellectuality blot out the ecclesiastical mistake of a 
literal hell of fire and brimstone, and see that the 
realms of hades and happiness are indwelling in the 
human being. A man or woman need not die out of 
mortal life to enter heaven or hell. They may be en- 
countered right here in mortal life and mortal experi- 
ences. 

Lone Star, the Indian Chief, in his pathetic story 
of the pale-face maiden, exonerates his race from a 
great crime charged against them. 

Phineas T. Barnum, the famous showman, illus- 
trates that it is more blessed to give than to receive 
and that the grandest way of making self happy is 
by affording happiness to some other person. 

Kobert Bonner was the successful publisher of The 
New York Ledger. He contends that nothing is of 
itself wonderful, that the wonderful things so termed 
to-day are not thought wonderful to-morrow. What 
is common-place to us to-day was seemingly wonder- 
ful to our forefathers. Everything that is, is natural, 
net wonderful. 

The Mind's Eye, by Dinah Maria Craik, is a fine 
illustration of the mind seeing clearer than the phys- 
ical eye, and farther. 



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Some of the Follies and Frailties of Education 
is a masterpiece of sarcasm aimed at what is evidently 
a bad system of school-methods in many parts of the 
country. If Benjamin Franklin were at the head of 
some of our school-boards, pupils would go forth fitted 
for the practical affairs of life, and spend less time 
studying over the tabefaction of Jones' longevity. 

The Swami Vivekananda writes a beautiful senti- 
ment touching on the crucifixion and the religious 
saving of mankind. Few of our readers will be able 
to translate this writing. 

Prof. Samuel P. Langley, prominently connected 
with the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C, 
takes the heretofore untrodden ground that much of 
what passes as created by God is merely material al- 
ready in existence, but molded over into various forms 
just as the metal-worker will make the same metal 
into different shapes : The Professor further says that 
man can build better and more enduringly than God 
has builded his body. 

Sarah J. Hale vividly portrays the fact that the 
spirit and not the body is the real self, that we may 
grow physically old and not be aware of it through 
any but the physical senses, that the spirit takes no 
cognizance of years or of physical wear, and that we 
are always as young as we feel. 

Abu Ishak, the adept, gives a terse analysis of a 
confusing combination in Soul, Spirit and Body. 

Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the elec- 
tric telegraph, bids us Adieu in a beautiful, kindly, 
touching and reminiscent manner. 

Headers will observe the brevity of all the articles 
in this book, showing how concisely every subject is 
treated. No words are wasted, no tedious explana- 
tions are entered into. The story is told and the les- 
son taught and learned in the fewest possible words. 



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